State v. Williams

730 P.2d 806 (1987)

STATE of Alaska, Petitioner,

v.

Travis Dean WILLIAMS, Respondent.

No. S-1120.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

January 9, 1987.

David Mannheimer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of Sp. Prosecutions and Appeals, Anchorage, and Harold M. Brown, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for petitioner.

David Gorman and David J. Schmid, Kay, Saville, Coffey, Hopwook & Schmid, Anchorage, for respondent.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and BURKE, MATTHEWS, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

I. FACTS.

On the evening of March 10, 1980, Thomas Andrus' partially burned body was discovered in his pickup truck, on a…