State v. Reeder

This is an appeal from a judgment and sentence after a verdict of guilty on a charge of second degree murder. Defendant and his wife, Beulah, were married in 1938. It was his second marriage and her third. She had three children by her previous marriages. Mr. Reeder supported these children, and they took his name. He and his wife operated a resort on Lake Sammamish, and, in addition, he worked on the night shift at Boeings.

In 1952, Mrs. Reeder started working for Milton Price, who owned and operated a concrete block plant located about four miles east of the Lake Washington floating bridge.…