State v. Wickman

WATSON, Justice.

Carl Wickman, convicted of murder in the first degree, appeals from the resulting capital sentence.

The count of the information which went to the jury charged that the killing was effected by striking the deceased with a heavy weapon.

On the evening of the homicide state’s witnesses, driving north on the Albuquerque-Santa Eé Highway, were stopped by appellant about ten miles north of Albuquerque. Appellant’s car was partly on and partly off the pavement, headed south toward Albuquerque. The deceased, appellant’s wife, was lying on the pavement some feet ahead of the car, dead…