State v. Haley

PHELPS, Chief Justice.

Appeal in this case was taken from a judgment of conviction and a denial of a motion for a new trial. The appellant, Loyal Lee Haley, hereinafter referred to as defendant, is one of three youths convicted in the superior court of Maricopa county on three separate felony counts: robbery, aggravated assault, and lewd and lascivious acts.

Defendant, then fifteen years of age, was charged, together with two other youths, with having picked up a sixteen-year-old hitchhiker, Donald Cook, in Chandler, Arizona, on June 9, 1958; taking him out on the desert, and there robbing,…