Lauterio v. State

The appellant appeals from the verdict and judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree entered against him on the eighth day of February, 1921, in the superior court of Maricopa county. The jury in its verdict fixed the punishment at death, and the court thereupon sentenced the appellant to be hanged on the twenty-first day of April, 1921, at the state penitentiary. The errors assigned by appellant are four in number, as follows:

“I. That the verdict and judgment are contrary to the law and evidence in this: That at the time of the commission of the crime the evidence shows that…