State v. Kincaid

Facts of Case

Defendant appeals his conviction at a jury trial of non-capital aggravated first degree murder and murder in the second degree. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole on the aggravated first degree murder conviction with his sentence on the murder in the second degree conviction to run concurrently. We granted direct review.

There was little issue at trial about the manner of the killings, the primary issue being whether the defendant had the mental capacity to premeditate the killings.

The murders were committed in Yakima County on June 14, 1982. The…