Legal Opinion
State v. Clark
Arizona Supreme Court
Decided July 25, 1980No. 4346PublishedCited by 189 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOLOHAN, Vice Chief Justice.
Appellant, James Dean Clark, was convicted after a trial by a jury of four counts of first-degree murder. He was sentenced to death on each count. A timely appeal was filed. We have jurisdiction pursuant to A.R.S. § 13-4031.
The essential facts are that for a year prior to the murders appellant worked as a wrangler at a dude ranch owned by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thumm located near Elfrida, Arizona. In the early morning hours of December 4, 1977, appellant murdered four persons. Beginning in the wranglers’ quarters, he stabbed to death an older wrangler who was “passed…
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