State v. Myers

This appeal is from a conviction of murder in the second degree. It is but fair to say that appellant was represented at the trial by other court-appointed counsel, and not by present counsel, who appears at our request. We express to him our gratitude for the faithful discharge of that obligation in the highest traditions of a noble profession.

No question arises as to the sufficiency of the evidence to .sustain the conviction. Indeed, the appellant himself frankly and voluntarily declared on the witness stand that he struck the fatal blows which renders a detailed recitation of the gruesome…