State v. Pacheco

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Proctor, J.

The defendant Victor Pacheco appeals from a conviction of murder in the first degree with a recommendation of life imprisonment.

The State charged that the defendant was a participant with Clarence Bobo Nelson (Bobo) in a robbery of Aníbal Luiz Oliveria during which Bobo killed Oliveria. Prior to the defendant’s trial, Bobo pleaded non vult and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

At the trial the evidence showed that the defendant met Bobo while both were incarcerated in the Cumberland County jail during the summer of 1959. When the defendant…