CLOMAN v. STATE

No. 4489.

574 P.2d 410 (1978)

Billy James CLOMAN, a/k/a Billy James Kloman, Julian Pernell Turner, a/k/a William Coleman, a/k/a Willie Joseph Spotman, Appellants (Defendants below), v. The STATE of Wyoming, Appellee (Plaintiff below).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

January 31, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Byron Hirst, James L. Applegate, Douglas G. Madison, Scott Lewis, Hirst & Applegate, Cheyenne, for appellants.

V. Frank Mendicino, Atty. Gen., David A. Kern and William M. Sutton, Senior Asst. Attys. Gen., Timothy J. Judson and Arthur T. Hanscum, Asst. Attys. Gen., Cheyenne, for appellee.

Before GUTHRIE, C.J., McCLINTOCK, THOMAS and ROSE, JJ., and ARMSTRONG, District Judge, Retired.


PER CURIAM.

Billy James Cloman and Julian Pernell Turner appeal from death sentences imposed by the district court of Albany County, Wyoming, after return of four separate guilty verdicts relating to the deaths of Lloyd Witt and Ray Davis, residents of Laramie County, Wyoming. Among other assignments of error the defendants attack the constitutionality of those provisions of the statute mandating the death penalty in first degree murder convictions.

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