STATE v. GARCIA

No. 12957.

620 P.2d 1285 (1980)

STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Filemon GARCIA, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

December 30, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis G. Stewart, Jr., Albuquerque, for defendant-appellant.

Jeff Bingaman, Atty. Gen., Clare E. Mancini, Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, for plaintiff-appellee.


OPINION

FELTER, Justice.

Defendant-appellant (Garcia) was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. He brings a direct appeal to this Court. We affirm.

Garcia claims that the State failed to establish a deliberate intention to kill and that he was entitled to a directed verdict of acquittal on the charge of first-degree murder. Secondly, he asserts that there is evidence in the record to support the giving of a voluntary...

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