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Show (APPEAL HEARS FOR BURGUNDER PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec 13 l-TV The legal fight to save the life of Robert Burgunder, former college tudent sentenced to execution for murder, will be resumed In the Arizona supreme court Friday when defense counsel files the first brief of Its appeal. Accused of killing Jack Peterson and Ellis M. Koury, Phoenix automobile auto-mobile salesmen, last April, Burgunder, Bur-gunder, 22, was convicted of murdering mur-dering Peterson and sentenced to the lethal gas chamber. He caused the execution to be stayed by appealing. ap-pealing. Peterson was a former resident of Provo, Utah. C. T. McKlnney, defense counsel, coun-sel, failed in an effort to defer filing of the first brief, containing assignments of error in the trial court, until January 15. 1940. The supreme court set the deadline for December 15. The attorney general then will have 30 days In which to reply, and the court probably prob-ably will not make a decision until spring. Burgunder Is the son of Robert M. Burgunder, former Seattle, to aid In his defense during the trial. The youlh Is albhe in the slate' prison's death row at Florence. "I am getting too fat," the once handsome Burgunder complained recently. "I guess I am sleeping "too much." He passes the time playing cards alone and reading magazines and books. His hair Is cropped short and he seldom shaves, in contrast to the dapper appearance he made as a student. |