People v. Robillard

— This is an automatic appeal from a judgment of guilty of murder in the first degree.

Defendant entered a plea of guilty to the crime of murder and stipulated that the trial judge should determine the degree of defendant’s crime and that a jury should be impanelled for the sole purpose of rendering an advisory verdict to the judge on this subject.

The jury returned an advisory verdict determining the degree of the crime to be murder in the first degree, and the trial judge concurred therein. Thereafter the jury returned a verdict setting the penalty at death.

Facts: About 4 a.m. on August 5,…