State v. Craney

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves legal issues which arose in a first-degree murder prosecution.

The jury could find the facts as follows. At the time of the incident in question defendant Michael Cecil Craney and his wife Kimberly had a fifteen-day-old child, Matthew. Previously defendant had un dergone periods of depression and delusions and had abused alcohol and drugs. The day before the incident he worked on his brother’s farm. That evening he complained of tiredness and “felt like his brain was fried.” His wife, thinking he was going to destroy their record collection for religious…