State v. Nelson

Reinhart Henry Nelson, John Thomas Patrick, Jr., and Alberta Russell Burns were jointly charged with murder in the first degree in that they,

“ . . . while engaged in the commission of or in withdrawing from the scene of the crimes of Attempted Burglary in the First Degree, or Attempted Robbery, did . . . shoot . . . into the body of . . . Dan Damitio, . . . then and there mortally wounding the said Dan Damitio . . . ”

Patrick entered a plea of guilty to the reduced charge of murder in the second degree, and received a penitentiary sentence. Mrs. Burns entered a plea to the reduced charge of…