State v. Zuniga

MEYER, Justice.

At approximately 2:00 p.m. on the afternoon of 13 July 1982, 7-year-old April Lee Sweet was reported missing. Her body was discovered later that afternoon on the Calvin Johnson farm near Taylorsville in rural Alexander County. The victim had been stabbed, her throat had been cut, and, as was later confirmed by autopsy, she had been raped.

As a result of investigation conducted during the afternoon and evening of 13 July, law enforcement authorities determined the following:

On the morning of 13 July the victim’s grandfather, Calvin Johnson, saw the defendant, whom he had known as…