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State v. Hitchcock

Arizona Supreme Court

Decided March 23, 1960No. 1126PublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PHELPS, Justice.

The appellant, Benjamin Hitchcock, hereinafter referred to as defendant was ■convicted in the Superior Court of Maricopa County of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment. The first count of the information charged him with having killed one Ernest A. DiVito while in the commission of a robbery; the ■second and third counts charged him with kidnaping. The defendant was acquitted ■of the kidnaping charges but was found guilty of murder in the first degree. The applicable statutes upon which the murder count of the information was based are as follows:

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2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. AlmeidaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1949
  2. Commonwealth v. MoyerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1947
  3. People v. QuinnCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1947
  4. People v. ClarkCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1945
  5. People v. AguinaldoCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1934

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3Cited by18 opinions

  1. State v. RichmondArizona Supreme Court · 1976
  2. State v. CelayaArizona Supreme Court · 1983
  3. State v. FerrariArizona Supreme Court · 1975
  4. State of Arizona v. Rodney Eugene HardyArizona Supreme Court · 2012
  5. State v. LawsonArizona Supreme Court · 1985

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