State v. Newbold

SHANGLER, Judge.

The defendant Newbold was convicted by a jury of murder in the second degree, and was sentenced by the court to life imprisonment as a persistent offender. It was the theory of the prosecution that Newbold and Susan Levy acted with the common purpose to lure Marshall [Beau] Levy, her estranged husband, to her home to kill him, but guised as an act of self-defense. The defendant Newbold contends on appeal that the evidence was insufficient to submit the offense on that, or any other theory. The defendant contends, rather, that the evidence conclusively proved self defense and…