State v. Armstrong

*411This is an appeal from a judgment entered in Yellowstone County District Court, pursuant to a jury verdict finding Harold Armstrong guilty of the crimes of deliberate homicide and robbery. Although the facts have been set forth in a prior appeal, we will briefly iterate them.

At approximately 8:00 a.m. on January 22, 1975, the body of Lynn Lords was found in a boiler room located in a Billings alley. There were multiple stab wounds in Lords’ neck, back and chest. The cause of death was determined to be due to a massive blood loss from the wound in the neck.

Lords had participated in a poker…