State v. Mayner

Defendant, after trial by jury, was convicted of murder in the first degree but without death penalty. He appeals. The agreed statement of facts may be briefly summarized.

Jeffery Huggard, a 16-year-old Glacier High School student, was last seen alive on December 1, 1968. That evening he had been the sole attendant of a south Seattle service station. When Jeffery failed to return home his parents went to the station and found it open and unattended. When the owner and police were summoned, it was discovered that several hundred dollars in cash was missing.

It was not until mid-February of 1969…