Legal Opinion
State v. Golladay
Washington Supreme Court
Decided May 28, 1970No. 40474PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtNeill, J.
The defendant is charged with first-degree murder committed (1) by premeditated design to effect death, (2) by homicide occurring during the commission of or withdrawing from the scene of a rape, or (3) by homicide occurring during the commission of or withdrawing from the scene of a larceny. He appeals from conviction and life sentence.
The assignments of error challenge admissibility of evidence, exclusion of prospective jurors opposed to capital punishment, and sufficiency of the evidence as to rape-murder and larceny-murder.
On January 20, 1968, the body of Enid McGlothlin was found lying…
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