State v. Boggs

McFarland, chief justice.

Appellant-defendant, Donald Melvin Boggs, plead guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the Superior Court, Coconino County, and appealed from the imposition of sentence which was based on a jury verdict fixing the penalty at death.

On September 6, 1965, the Arizona Highway Patrol reported that the dead bodies of two Caucasian males had been found about seven miles East of Ashfork, Arizona. Each man’s hands had been tied behind his back with cord; one of them had been beaten about the head and face with a blunt object and shot two times; the other one had been…