State v. Brooks

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction for the crime of second degree murder and a sentence of 40 years in the state prison entered against the defendant Roy Als Brooks. The judgment is pursuant to a verdict of “guilty” rendered in the district court of the second judicial district, the Honorable John B. McClernan, District Judge presiding, sitting with a jury.

The defendant was charged with the crime of first degree murder by an information filed in the district court on April 27, 1966. The purported crime arose out of…