Douglass v. State

This is an appeal by Louis Sprague Douglass from a judgment of the superior court of Yuma county, dated October 3, 1933, which sentenced him to death by hanging, on the verdict of a jury finding him guilty of murder in the first degree and fixing the penalty of death.

The following facts regarding the case are undisputed: Defendant at the time of the trial was forty-seven years of age. Some time during the month of January, 1933, he, together with two other parties by the name of Doughty and O’Connell, left New York City for Arizona, arriving some time later at the Jack Hayden ranch in…