State v. Zukauskas

The defendant was convicted of first degree murder by a statutory court consisting of three judges and has appealed. He claims that the evidence does not support the conclusion that he was proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and assigns as error certain rulings admitting in evidence statements made by him out of court.

The defendant murdered his mistress. This is admitted. He attacks the findings and the conclusions of the trial court, but the ultimate question is presented by his claim that he could not, upon all of the evidence, properly be found guilty of the crime of murder in the…