State v. Galloway

CARLTON, Justice.

I

Only a brief summary of the evidence is necessary here for an understanding of the case giving rise to this appeal.

The prosecuting witness, Enola Kay Conrad, is a deaf mute and testified at trial through an interpreter. She told the jury that late on the night of 9 June 1980, she and two girlfriends, who were also deaf, and several males went out to dance and drink beer. They first went to Patterson’s, and then left for Curt’s Place. They arrived at Curt’s at about midnight or one o’clock in the morning. At Curt’s Place, she saw the defendant, James Luther Galloway. He…