State v. Johns

UDALL, Chief Justice:

The appellant, William Junior Johns, was brought to trial in the Superior Court of Maricopa County on a charge of murder. At the conclusion of the trial the jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree and he was sentenced to life imprisonment to commence February 8, 1966. Thereafter, motions for a new trial, in arrest of judgment and for reduction of verdict to voluntary manslaughter, were denied.

The defendant failed to file a notice of appeal within the requisite 60-day period but his court-appointed attorney filed a motion to take a delayed appeal which was…