Legal Opinion
State v. Walton
Arizona Supreme Court
Decided February 2, 1989No. CR-87-0022-APPublishedCited by 155 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOLOHAN, Justice (Retired).
The defendant, Jeffrey Walton, was convicted of first degree murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, and theft by control for abducting, robbing and killing Thomas Powell. He was sentenced to death on the murder conviction and to prison terms on the noncapital felony convictions, to be served consecutively to the death sentence.
The facts developed at trial are that the defendant and his two codefendants, Robert Hoover and Sharold Ramsey, had planned to rob at gunpoint some “old man that was drunk,” take his car, tie him up, and leave him in the desert area outside of…
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