State v. Huson

Thirteen-year-old Bonnie Zessin testified that she saw Robert E. Huson put his arm around her mother, take a black object from his pocket, hold it up close to her mother and fire two shots. Mrs. Tapio, Bonnie’s mother, slid down along the washing machine and came to rest against the wall. She was dead.

Robert E. Huson was charged by information with the crime of murder in the first degree as follows:

He, the said Robert Edward Huson, in the County of King, State of Washington, on or about the 28th day of January, 1967, with a premeditated design to effect the death of one Lorraine E. Tapio, a…