State v. Goodyear

McFarland, justice:

Appellants, Ronald Clifton Joseph Goodyear also know as Donald Clifton Goodyear and Steven David Jackson, hereinafter designated as defendants or Goodyear and Jackson, were tried jointly for the crime of robbery and murder. Both were found guilty by a jury which fixed the punishment at death. From the conviction and sentence of the court they appeal.

Goodyear was born in Clifton, Arizona, in 1918, where he lived with his grandmother until he was seven or eight years old. After his mother’s death — when he was about five years of age — he lived with various relatives, part of…