United States v. Landicho

DIMOND, District Judge.

On motion coram nobis of defendant, Frank Landicho, to vacate judgment and grant new trial. Denied.

On June 23, 1941, at a salmon cannery near Naknek, Alaska, Frank Landicho, the defendant in this action, shot and killed Adriano Quitives, as the result of a dispute arising out of a game of chance played for money. In both judicial and extra-judicial voluntary statements the defendant admitted the killing and related the circumstances thereof. The grand jury, on October 7, 1941, indicted for murder in the first degree, the punishment for which prescribed by our code in…