State v. Smith

Loray S. Smith, also known as Larie Johns and Marla Wilson, appeals her conviction, following a trial by jury, of the first degree felony murder of Laura LaPointe. Smith assigns as error the trial court’s failure to dismiss the charge against her or, in the alternative, to direct a verdict in her favor.. We affirm the conviction which resulted in a sentence of imprisonment for life.

The victim’s mutilated corpse was found by a passer-by beside the Canyon Road in the Hummel Park area of Douglas County on Monday morning, April 11, 1983. The death was caused by injuries resulting from multiple…