State v. Miller

The defendant was charged by information with the crime of murder in the first degree. The trial resulted in a verdict of guilty as charged and a special verdict or finding by the jury that the death penalty should be inflicted. From the judgment and sentence pronounced on the verdict and special finding, this appeal followed.

The jury were warranted in finding that, prior to and on October 30, 1929, John Ivester was in the employ of the American Railway Express agency at Spokane, Washington, engaged as a money and settlement clerk. Shortly after office hours, at about six o’clock in the…