State v. Griffin

Defendant was charged with murder. ORS 163.115. He pleaded not guilty, claiming self-defense, but was convicted by a unanimous jury verdict and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Defendant appeals, presenting seven assignments of error. We shall consider the assignments in the sequence presented by defendant, except the fourth assignment shall be considered last.

On November 12, 1973, defendant and Carol Lyman (the estranged wife of the deceased, Gary Lyman) were living together in Springfield, Oregon. Three days earlier Lyman had arrived in the Eugene area after being released from a…