Legal Opinion

State v. Blackwood

Arizona Supreme Court

Decided January 13, 1976No. 3096Published

1Opinion of the Court

STRUCKMEYER, Vice Chief Justice.

This appeal was brought pursuant to a Superior Court order dated November 12, 1974, authorizing Willard Lee Blackwood to file a delayed appeal. Blackwood was convicted by jury of first degree murder and on November 8, 1943 was sentenced to imprisonment in the Arizona State Prison for the remainder of his natural life. The judgment of the court below and sentence based thereon are affirmed.

*553Blackwood first urges that the trial court committed prejudicial error in allowing the State to prove that he committed another, serparate criminal offense, that of auto…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. California v. GreenSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  2. Harrington v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  3. State v. JordanArizona Supreme Court · 1956
  4. Wilkerson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1931
  5. State v. GomezArizona Supreme Court · 1970

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