Orfield v. State

OPINION

On July 4, 1980, appellant Katherine L. Orfield was traveling from Louisiana to California with Ronnie Milligan, Paris Leon Hale, Terry Carl Bonnette, Ramon Houston and Kathy Orfield, appellant’s teenage daughter. Houston was a migrant farm worker whom the others had picked up at a rest stop near Omaha several days before.

The group met elderly Zalihon Voinski at a rest stop near Valmy. Voinski was experiencing mechanical problems with her car, and left the rest stop with appellant and the others. Voinski was subsequently beaten to death with a sledgehammer. Orfield, Milligan, Hale and…