State v. Bonner

June 3, 1957, John H. Bonner was committed, by the superior court for Pierce county, to the Western State Hospital as a mentally ill person. August 10, 1957, the superintendent of Western State Hospital paroled Bonner as a patient safe to be at large.

October 15, 1957, at approximately 9:50 a.m., Bonner called Kay Lee, sister of his divorced wife, Lilly Bonner, and said: “ ‘You better go see your sister. I just killed her.’ ” She notified the police. Lilly Bonner was found dead upon their arrival at her Seattle residence.

*578■The automobile which Bonner had borrowed from Wayne Chaplin that…