State v. Riley

— The defendants, Riley and Butt, were charged by information, filed in the superior court for Clallam county, with the crime of murder in the first degree, as being committed by them in that county on March 25, 1922, while they were jointly engaged in the commission of the crime of robbery. Their trial jointly in that court, sitting with a jury, resulted in verdicts of guilty as charged being rendered against both of them, and the determining of the punishment both of them shall suffer to be life imprisonment. Judgments and sentences were thereafter accordingly rendered by the trial court,…