MacIas v. State

Refugio Macias, hereinafter called defendant, was informed against by the county attorney of Greenlee county for the crime of murder. The jury which tried the case found him guilty of murder in the first degree, and fixed the penalty at death. Judgment was duly pronounced in accordance with the verdict, and from this judgment defendant prosecutes his appeal to this court.

Counsel who represented defendant in the trial court filed a brief on appeal which contains some thirteen assignments of error. The Attorney General answered these assignments, and defendant’s counsel replied thereto, and the…