Doughty v. State

Willard Doughty, hereinafter called appellant, was charged jointly with Dan O’Connell and Louis Sprague Douglass with the murder of one Balph Hart. On this charge, a severance having been demanded, appellant went to trial and the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree, and he was sentenced to serve from twenty-five to fifty years in prison. From such sentence and the verdict this appeal is prosecuted.

The undisputed facts are as follows: Doughty, O’Connell and Douglass left New York City in the early part of January, 1933, for northern Yuma county, where there was a…