State v. Otto

McFADDEN, Justice.

The appellant appeals his conviction of attempted first degree murder based on his hiring of an undercover police officer to kill Captain Ailor of the Lewiston Police Department. Appellant had been under investigation by Captain Ailor concerning the disappearance of the appellant’s wife in August, 1976.

On October 24,1976, appellant was in the Long Branch Saloon owned by Stan Kuykendall. Mr. Kuykendall testified that during a conversation appellant expressed a desire to find a “hit-man” to kill Captain Ailor because Ailor had been harassing him over Mrs. Otto’s disappearance.…