Starkweather v. State

By information, the plaintiff in error was charged in one count with unlawfully, feloniously, purposely, and of his own deliberate and premeditated malice killing Robert William Jensen; and in a second count with unlawfully, feloniously, and purposely in the perpetration of a robbery killing Robert William Jensen.

We herein refer to the plaintiff in error as the defendant, and to the defendant in error as the State.

Defendant pleaded not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity to both counts.

Trial was had to a jury. The jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree on…