People v. Cook

THE COURT.

The defendant herein was charged with the crime of murder as set forth in the first count of an indictment that had been returned against him. In the same indictment he was charged with the commission of other offenses which consisted of two several counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder, one count of robbery, one of rape and three several counts of burglary,— to each of which charges he pleaded guilty. When the ease was called for the taking of evidence by the trial court in the matter of fixing the degree of the crime of murder, defendant refused to…