State v. Smith

Defendant appeals the jury verdict convicting him of deliberate homicide in the Eighth Judicial District, Cascade County, on May 9, 1984.

We affirm.

This is the second time this Court has considered this matter. In November 1982 defendant Craig Steven Smith, an airman stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base, was charged with the deliberate homicide of his fiancee Susan Galloway on or about October 23, 1982. The first trial ended in mistrial on January 18, 1984, at defense counsel’s request, after the State questioned the victim’s father as to what he had learned about defendant’s sexual past. The…