Roberts v. State

OPINION

In the early morning hours of March 7, 1984, Ranae Loddy and Charlie Johnston were asleep in the bedroom of Johnston’s trailer in Jackpot. They were awakened by a persistent knock on the trailer door. Ms. Loddy climbed from bed and went to answer the knock. When she opened the door, she was shot and killed by her boyfriend, the appellant, Douglas Doyle Roberts. Johnston exited the trailer via a back door and was not harmed. He phoned the police from a neighbor’s trailer; and when they arrived, Roberts was arrested.

Prior to the night of the shooting Roberts was a senior highway…