(DOWNLOAD) "Martin v. Edmondson" by Supreme Court of Kansas ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

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Title: Martin v. Edmondson
Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
Release Date : January 24, 1954
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 53 KB

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The opinion of the court was delivered by This is an original proceeding in habeas corpus in which
petitioner, who is confined in the state penitentiary awaiting
execution of a death sentence, seeks to have his conviction set
aside and a new trial. Petitioner and one Isgrigg were charged in Johnson County with
the commission of four felonies, the first count of the
information charging murder in the first degree of one Carver, a
deputy sheriff of that county. A severance was requested and
granted, and petitioner was by a jury found guilty of all four
counts of the information. His punishment on the first degree
murder count was fixed at death. On the other three counts he was
sentenced to terms of imprisonment which were not to begin to run
except in the event the sentence on the first count was not
carried out.