STATE v. JACKSON

No. 3713.

118 Ariz. 270 (1978)

576 P.2d 129

STATE of Arizona, Appellee, v. Melvin Lee JACKSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Arizona, In Banc.

Rehearing Denied March 28, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce E. Babbitt, Atty. Gen. by William J. Schafer, III and Galen H. Wilkes, Asst. Attys. Gen., Phoenix, for appellee.

Alan H. Susman, Phoenix, for appellant.


HOLOHAN, Justice.

Appellant, Melvin Lee Jackson, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to confinement for twenty-five years to life.

The essential facts are that on January 2, 1975, in the early morning hours appellant with two companions, Samuel Parker and Barry Russell, entered a U-Totem convenience market in Tempe, Arizona, and shot the store clerk, Joseph Howard Curtiss. There were no eyewitnesses to the crime.

Appellant was arrested...

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