Collins v. State

By information, the county attorney accused defendant and one Charles Antone of the crime of murder, the offense being described as follows s

“The said Charles Antone and Leonard Collins on or about the 20th day of Oct. 1929, and before the filing of this information, at, and in the county of Yuma, State of Arizona, did then and there, wilfully, unlawfully, feloniously, deliberately and with premeditation and malice aforethought, kill and murder one Henry Cornell, a human being. ...”

Defendant Collins demanded a severance, and was tried alone. From a verdict and sentence of manslaughter, he…