STATE v. BURKHEART

No. 2065.

106 Ariz. 490 (1970)

478 P.2d 515

STATE of Arizona, Appellee, v. Billy G. BURKHEART, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Arizona, In Banc.

December 31, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary K. Nelson, Atty. Gen., Carl Waag, Asst. Atty. Gen., Phoenix, for appellee.

Stanfield, McCarville & Coxon, by Thomas A. McCarville, and Ron L. Briggs, Casa Grande, for appellant.


LOCKWOOD, Chief Justice:

Defendant was charged with murder. He pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity, and was given a bifurcated trial under A.R.S. § 13-1621.01. A jury found him guilty of second degree murder and found that he was sane at the time of the crime. He was sentenced to not less than twenty-five and not more than thirty years in prison.

On appeal his attorney stated in his brief that he was unable to find any reversible error...

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