STATE v. BELL

No. 2448-1.

10 Wn. App. 957 (1974)

521 P.2d 70

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, Respondent, v. BILLY JAMES BELL, Appellant.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division One.

April 15, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. Crane, for appellant (appointed counsel for appeal).

Christopher T. Bayley, Prosecuting Attorney, and Michael P. Ruark, Deputy, for respondent.


HOROWITZ, J.

Defendant, after jury trial, appeals a judgment of conviction for second-degree murder. The information in substance charged that defendant had beaten one Estelle Cook, and that she died as a result of the beating.

The facts of the case as the jury could have found them are these. Defendant, Billy James Bell, and his wife Cynthia were married on July 7, 1971. At that time the wife had an infant daughter, Estelle Cook, born November 15, 1969. Following...

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