THORNTON, Judge.
Defendant was convicted of second degree murder by allegedly "pushing or shoving" Irene Marty over a cliff into the Columbia river gorge. He appeals on several grounds, including that there was not sufficient evidence to make a jury question. We agree.
The evidence of the alleged crime was entirely circumstantial. About noon on the day of the episode defendant became acquainted with a man named Leonard Pruchniewski in a secondhand store in...
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