State v. Gambetta

OPINION

By the Court,

Badt, J.:

Appellant Eugene Leo Gambetta was convicted in the district court of Washoe county for the crime of murder in the first degree and the jury imposed the death penalty. Gambetta has appealed from the judgment and from the order denying his motion'for a new trial. Before considering his seven assignments of error a recital of the facts is necessary. These facts appear from three separate confessions made by the defendant to three separate officers in San Francisco immediately following his apprehension and also from certain additional, independent and corroborative…