People v. Oxnam

Appellant and one Glenn Witt were jointly informed against for the crime of murder, alleged to have been committed December 22, 1914. They were tried separately, and appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree and adjudged to suffer death. This is an appeal from such judgment and from an order denying a motion for a new trial.

The circumstances attendant upon the commission of the homicide are stated in the opinion of this court in People v. Witt, (Crim. No. 1922), ante, p. 104, [148 Pac. 928]. It appears that it was this appellant who actually shot and killed William M. Alexander,…