State v. Ward

On August 31, 1973, John Brennan was shot and killed in front of the Hi Ho Club in Garden City, Idaho. At a jury trial held February 24 to 27, 1975, defendant-appellant Danny Ward was found guilty of second degree murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and appeals both the conviction and the sentence.

The facts of the crime, as established at trial, are that Danny Ward and his friend Larry LaFrainer stopped their motorcycles in front of the Hi Ho Club at 1:00 o’clock on the morning of August 31,1973, as Brennan exited along with two unidentified acquaintances and two women, Judy Cole…