Legal Opinion
State v. Smith
Washington Supreme Court
Decided October 29, 1968No. 39475, 39481PublishedCited by 124 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRosellini, J.
The defendants appeal from judgments and sentences entered on verdicts of guilty of two counts of murder in the first degree, four counts of robbery, and one count of assault in the first degree. The special verdicts of the jury imposed the death penalty upon each of them for the second murder count, but only a life sentence for the first. The court ordered that the death penalty should take precedence over the penalties for the other crimes.
The first count concerned the murder of Edwin A. Hutton, which occurred on December 4, 1965. Mr. Hutton was found, bleeding from gunshot wounds in the…
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