State v. Gallegos

WADE, Justice.

Defendants, hereinafter referred to as Ted and Ray Gallegos, appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree by a jury verdict. They were charged with first degree murder of Raul Yanes on August 11, 1963, who was stabbed to death in the early hours of that day.

Shortly before the stabbing Mike Hoo-piiana, while driving south on State Street, Salt Lake City, between Fourth and Fifth South Streets, picked up his friend, Yanes, and drove to a parking lot on the northwest corner of Seventh South and State Streets. Together they walked east to the sidewalk toward State Street…