State v. Draper

The defendant Mendon Draper was convicted of murder in the first degree, and appeals. The chief assignments of error are: (1) That the evidence is insufficient to support the charge of first degree murder, to show that the homicide was committed with premeditation or deliberation or with malice aforethought, etc.; (2) errors in the charge; (3) error in denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial on the ground of disqualification of one of the jurors.

The substance of the information is that the defendants Mendon Draper and Ivadell Jensen, on the 12th day of April, 1932, in Sanpete county,…