State v. White

Defendant appeals from his conviction for aggravated murder, ORS 163.095, assigning as error the trial court’s failure to grant his motion for mistrial, its failure to give his requested instructions on manslaughter and its denial of his motions for a judgment of acquittal on the aggravated murder charge and for a change of venue. We affirm.

Defendant was one of three persons charged with the December, 1982, murder of a Springfield millworker, Robert Harris, who died of injuries sustained in an explosion in the parking lot of the Rosboro Lumber Company. The explosion resulted from dynamite and…