State v. Ogilvie

The grand jury of Union County,. Oregon, returned an indictment accusing defendant Claude N. Ogilvie of the crime of murder in the first degree committed on the 25th day of July, 1945, by “wilfully, feloniously and unlawfully, purposely and of deliberate and premeditated malice” killing “one Jack Stareo by shooting him, the said Jack Stareo, with a loaded shotgun”. Defendant was found guilty of murder in the first degree with a recommendation that his punishment be fixed at life imprisonment. From the judgment sentencing him to life imprisonment in .the state penitentiary, defendant has…