The Nenana news., 1921-04-16
SECURA PAYS PRICE
 FOR KILLING RILEY
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was working short distance away, quit their work and, spreading out, closed in upon Segura who, seeing escape was impossible. fhrew up his hands and sad, "me no kill no more." He was taken into custody and held to the grand jury. At the special June, 1918, term of court, at Flat, he was indicted and his trial set for the 9th. day of July, 1918. The trial lasted five days and the jury, being out four hours, brought in verdict of guilty as charged in the indictment. On the 18th. day of July Judge C. E. Bun nell. who presided at the trial, sent enced Segura to hang or the 4th. day of October, 1918. From this judgment of the court, Segura sued out a writ of error to the Einth Circuit Court of Appsals, & San Francisco. On October 20, 1919, the appellate court rendered it's de- cision affirming the judgment render ed by Judge Bunnell The writ of error was heard before Circuit Judges Gilbert, Ross and Hunt. The opinion of this court, as delivered by Judge Ross, is as follows:
 Segura, V. Uunited States
 Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, October 29, 1919. No. 328S.
 Before Gilbert, Ross and Hunt, circuit judges. .=.
 ROSS, Circuit Judge-The plain tiff in error was charged by indict- ment with the deliberate and pre- meditated murder of J. E. Riley, known as George Riley, near the town of Flat, on Otter creek, in the Territory of Alaska, May 5, 1913, of which crime he was convicted by the verdict of jury. without the qualification authorized by the Code of Alaska, to which a sentence to Imprisonment at hard labor for life would have attached. Thereafter tEe Judgment of death was imposed ,.p- on him by the judgment here brought for review. Sections 1885, 1884, Comp Laws of Alaska, pp GAS, 649: In the court below motion was made for change of the place of trial from the town of Flat, where the court was held, to Fairbanks, or some other place within the Fourth Judicial Division of the Territiiy, to be designated by the court, upon the alleged grounds that there was treason to believe that an impartial trial could not be had at Flat", aud that "the ends of justice would be promoted by the change" The ad- dltlonal transcript that has been brought here pursuant to the writ of certiorari heretofore issued out of this court shows that two affi- davits were filed in support of the motion, one by the plaintiff in error and the other by his attorney, scd five on the part of the government, all of which-in view of the fact that the plaintiff in error is under sentence of death-we have care fully examined and considered, re. gardless of any technical objections and are unable to hold that the trial court committed any error or abuse of discretion in denying the motion, in addition to whicil it may be said that it appears from the supplemental transcript that the trial at Flat actually demonstrated that, while number of persons sum- mored there as jurors disqualified themselves as such by reason of prejudice against the defendant to the indictment, there was no diff culty in securing a sufficient num- Der of qualified jurors to whose service as such no valid objection was interposed, and no exception taken to any action of the trial court respecting them.
 The only other point urged on behalf of the plaintiff in error is that the evidence was insufficient to justify the verdict that was re- turned, which point the record clear ly shows to be without merit. There u