State v. Haga

Defendant appeals from a jury conviction of the first-degree murders of his wife and infant daughter.

The deaths occurred in the early morning of July 6, 1966. The defendant has maintained since that date that he was asleep in the bedroom of their rented home and awoke in the morning to find his wife and the youngest of two daughters strangled. A neighbor testified that the defendant appeared at his door on the morning in question and said, “there was something wrong with Judy.” The neighbor accompanied the defendant into the house and found the wife’s body in the living room, where, according…