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BRAHAM v. STATE

No. 2558.

571 P.2d 631 (1977)

Harold BRAHAM, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

November 10, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Backstrom, Deputy Public Defender and Mark E. Ashburn, Asst. Public Defender, Fairbanks, and Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant.

David Mannheimer, Asst. Dist. Atty. and Harry L. Davis, Dist. Atty., Fairbanks, and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice, RABINOWITZ, CONNOR and BURKE, Justices, and DIMOND, Justice Pro Tem.

OPINION

DIMOND, Justice Pro Tem.

In this criminal action, a contract is involved — a contract to kill.

According to testimony at the trial, appellant, Harold Braham, hired Jeffrey Koelzer to kill David Peterson. Braham was convicted of attempted first degree murder. He appeals on a number of grounds. The first is that the evidence was insufficient to warrant an indictment for attempted murder and also insufficient to withstand a motion for...

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