State v. Johnson

DURHAM, Justice:

Defendant Alvin Johnson appeals from a decision of the Third Judicial District Court finding him guilty of first degree murder. We affirm.

Defendant waived his right to trial and was convicted after the district court’s review of the transcript of defendant’s preliminary hearing. The facts as revealed at the hearing are as follows.

Anna Clark and her husband, James, were travelling by freight train from Nevada to Wyoming when they stopped in Salt Lake City on August 1, 1983. The couple and their animals took up residence in Pioneer Park, where they met defendant some days later.…