State v. Gwaltney

This is a review of an order entered by the Superior Court for King County, the Honorable Ward Roney, Judge, following the state’s petition for a writ of certiorari which was granted.

June 7, 1967 Terry Lee Gwaltney was charged by information in King County with the first-degree murder of 76-year-old Cecelia Sack. August 23, 1967 a special plea of not guilty to the charge was entered upon his behalf. The plea stated that the defendant was mentally irresponsible at the time of the alleged murder and that his condition of mental irresponsibility still existed. September 11, 1967, a hearing was…