Trest v. State

Murder; sentence: life imprisonment.

The victim, Linda Sue Trest, mother of two small children and the estranged wife of the appellant, was murdered on the morning of November 3, 1980, by her husband as she sat in her automobile after driving her son to his school bus stop. The couple had been separated approximately six weeks at the time the husband decided to wait for her at the bus stop in order to discuss their marital situation. Several witnesses who knew or could recognize the victim were in the habit of seeing her with her son at the bus stop and testified to having seen her there the…