State v. Ahlo

The three appellants here were convicted of murder in the first degree after a jury trial in Hilo.

On or about July 29,1977, Benny Madamba died from a blow to the head which fractured his skull. On August 19,1977, Madamba’s badly decomposed body which was wrapped in bedding, was found in a canefield near Keaau, Hawaii. The bedding was traced to one Louis Mendonca and on August 29,1978, after a grant of immunity and police protection, Mendonca told the police that he and four Honolulu men, the appellants and one Kenneth Edward Lendt, picked up Madamba in Fely’s Bar in Hilo and took him to…