State v. Gay

Defendant, Olga Ritá Gay was convicted of attempted murder in the first degree for hiring a man to kill her husband and assisting him by furnishing pictures for identification and advising him where her husband could be found. The man she hired was in fact a police detective, who had no intention of killing her husband. Pursuant to RCW 9.01.070(1), the attempt statute, she was sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 20 years.

Defendant’s six assignments of error essentially raise three major issues. (1) Do the facts charged in the information constitute the crime of attempted murder in the…