State v. Taylor

This is an appeal by defendant Andrew Taylor from a judgment of the district court of Cascade County entered on a jury verdict of second degree murder. Defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The facts of this ease are repelling. However, our inquiry as appears hereinafter is whether or not defendant has had a fair trial; and not whether defendant may be guilty or innocent.

On the morning of December 22, 1971, Victoria Lynn Mullen died at Columbus Hospital in Great Falls, Montana. Death was caused by a massive subdural hemotoma, i. e. a bleeding into the cranial cavity in the space…