Jacobs v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, J.:

Alice Jean Pablo was murdered by a shotgun blast while she was clerking in a neighborhood grocery store operated by her and her husband. The killing took place in Las Vegas early in the morning of July 23, 1972. No eyewitnesses were present.

Dennis Robert Jacobs was apprehended in West Yellowstone, Montana, and charged with the crime. He was tried and convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment with possibility of parole from which he appeals.

His assignments of error are:

1. The court allowed evidence of the victim’s pregnancy, permitted a color photograph of…