State v. Brown

Defendant, Charles Noel Brown, was in-dieted for the murder of Alvin E. Koehrsen on or about Feb ruary 22, 1961, in violation of section 690.1, Code, 1958. He was well represented by an. able attorney appointed to defend him. A plea of not guilty was entered and trial was had. The jury found defendant guilty of murder in the first degree and directed the punishment shall be death rather than life imprisonment. (See Code section 690.5.) From judgment pursuant to the verdict defendant has appealed. We affirm the judgment.

Sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict of first-degree murder…