People v. Brunt

—The defendant, with a pistol, shot and killed William E. Roy, at Castile, in the county of Wyoming. The contention of his counsel is that conviction of the crime of murder in the first degree was not justified, because the evidence did not fairly permit the conclusion that the act was committed with deliberate and premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed, although he may have intended to kill Roy. The deceased and his half-sister, Eva Roy, were sitting in the front room of their father’s house, and the defendant came from his sleeping room, on the second floor down…