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STATE v. BRAASCH, ET AL.

No. 7504.

119 Utah 450 (1951)

229 P.2d 289

STATE v. BRAASCH et al.

Supreme Court of Utah.

Rehearing denied June 19, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Snow, Salt Lake City, for Verne Alfred Braasch.

Orville Isom, Cedar City, Patrick H. Fenton, Avron Sandack, and Ned Warnock, all of Salt Lake City, for Melvin LeRoy Sullivan.

Clinton D. Vernon, Atty. Gen., Sam Cline, Milford, Quentin, L.R. Alston, and Bryce E. Roe, Salt Lake City, for respondent.

WADE, Justice.

Defendants, Verne Alfred Braasch and Melvin LeRoy Sullivan were convicted of first-degree murder of Howard Manzione, a Standard Oil Service station attendant, at Beaver City, Utah, on October 22, 1949, and were sentenced to pay the death penalty. At the time of the killing Braasch was 24 years of age and Sullivan 19. By this appeal, they question the validity of their convictions because the State failed to...

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