State v. LaValley

Defendant appeals from his convictions of deliberate homicide and aggravated kidnapping entered in the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, in and for the County of Missoula.

Defendant shot and killed William Homer Rock, III, on April 10, 1980, at the Nauditt residence, south of Lolo, Montana. The events leading up to the shooting are as follows. Defendant married Penny Nauditt in the summer of 1979. Defendant and Penny Nauditt had a stormy marriage which precipitated numerous fights and separations. In December 1979, Penny obtained a divorce from defendant in a Missoula District…