State v. Riggle

*17OPINION

Blume, Chief Justice.

The defendant Clay Riggle was charged with the crime of first degree murder. He pleaded not guilty, and later further pleaded not guilty by reason of sanity. A trial was had, and the jury convicted the defendant of first degree murder without adding the phrase “without capital punishment” as permitted by the provisions of § 9-201, Wyoming Compiled Statutes, 1945, and the defendant was thereupon sentenced to die in the gas chamber in the penitentiary at Rawlins, Wyoming.

Defendant Riggle was born on December 20, 1900, in Woodbine, Iowa. Two weeks before graduating…