State v. Fenley

BURNETT, Judge.

The Fenley house in Boise was quiet. The body of Dorothy Fenley remained in a chair where she had been sitting when a shotgun blast struck her. Nearly a full day later, the crime had not yet been discovered.

A telephone rang at the home of an Ada County deputy coroner. A male voice told him to go to a specified address where he would find a woman shot to death in a chair. At first the anonymous call was disregarded. But shortly thereafter an inquiring neighbor discovered the body, and the deputy coroner was dispatched to the scene.

After examining the body, the deputy coroner met…