State v. Chase

PHELPS, Chief Justice.

On December 1, 1953, Jean Chase, defendant-appellee herein, was convicted in the superior court of Maricopa County of murder in the first degree by a jury of her peers which fixed the punishment at life-imprisonment in the state penitentiary at Florence. On the 16th day of December, 1953, the trial court on motion of defendant for a new trial granted said motion from which order the State of Arizona appeals.

The court declined upon request to state the ground upon which it ordered a new trial. The State therefore has undertaken to show that the court was not justified in…