State v. Huff

This is an appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree, the sentence being life imprisonment as required by statute (RCW 9.48.030) when the jury does not impose the death penalty.

On the morning of January 26, 1967, James Huff was killed by a bullet entering the back of his head. The only witness to the shooting was his wife, Katherine Louise Huff, the appellant here. At the trial, she testified that the deceased had been quite despondent over their precarious financial condition and because of an affair he was carrying on with another woman. The appellant testified that when she…