State v. Brown

ON MOTION TO MODIFY OPINION.

The Attorney General has filed a motion to modify the above opinion and in lieu of affirming the judgment of the trial court, which ordered that the death sentence be carried into execution by hanging, as was provided by law at the time of the sentence of the trial court, enter an order adjudging that the defendant be executed by the administration of lethal gas, as provided by an act of the Legislature of 1937. [See Laws 1937, pages 221 to 223.] Notice of the motion to modify has been served upon the attorney of record for the appellant.

It will be noted that the…