People v. Petro

By an information filed by the district attorney of San Diego County, defendant was charged with the crime of murder in the first degree. He was tried before a jury which returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree and fixed his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for life. Judgment was pronounced in accordance with this verdict. From this judgment defendant has appealed.

Defendant and one James White, a negro, were employed on a hog ranch near El Cajon, California, by Margaret Catherine Geer, the deceased. They planned to rob the deceased and on September 17, 1935, in…