State v. James

HALL, Chief Justice:

Defendant Steven Ray James appeals his conviction of first degree murder for the killing of his son and his sentence to life imprisonment. On Tuesday, August 26, 1986, at approximately 12:54 p.m., defendant reported that his infant son Steven *784Roy James was missing from a parked car near the west entrance of the Oseo Drug parking lot in Logan, Utah. On October 11, 1986, duck hunters found the remains of an infant later identified as Steven Roy James submerged in an area known as the Bear River Marina in Cache County.

Defendant was arrested on October 23, 1986, and charged…