State v. Graves

Defendant Charles Henry Graves was charged by information with deliberate homicide and aggravated assault. He was convicted of mitigated deliberate homicide in the Lewis and Clark County District Court and sentenced to twenty years in the Montana State Prisión with ten years suspended.

Defendant Charles Graves, a 20-year old black man with an eleventh grade education, spent most of April 17, 1979, drinking *84beer with friends in Helena, Montana. That evening defendant and several friends went to “Club 21” where he had several more drinks. There he met a woman from Idaho who told him that she was…