State v. Henderson

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the circuit court which found him, guilty of the crime of first-degree murder and which ordered his execution. The judgment was based upon a verdict of a jury unaccompanied by recommendation of life imprisonment as permitted by Constitution of Oregon, Art. I, § 37, and § 23-411, O. C. L. A. According to the indictment, one Walter H. Poole was the victim of the homicide.

The appellant submits nine assignments of error which, succinctly stated, follow:

The defendant’s motion for a verdict of not guilty should have been sustained.

The…