STATE v. SMITH

No. 4180-1.

16 Wn. App. 300 (1976)

555 P.2d 431

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, Respondent, v. JEROME WAYNE SMITH, Appellant.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division One.

October 18, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brett & Daugert, Dean Brett, LeCocq, Simonarson, Visser & Johnson, and Peter Visser, for appellant (appointed counsel for appeal).

David S. McEachran, Prosecuting Attorney, for respondent.


ANDERSEN, J..

FACTS OF CASE

The defendant, Jerome Wayne Smith, arrived at the Bellingham Police Department at approximately 9:45 a.m. on May 18, 1975. He informed the officer on duty that he had just killed someone.

After being fully advised as to his constitutional rights, he made oral and written confessions that on that same morning he had killed one Daisy Gabrielson. As he expressed it in his signed confession,

I choked her with my hands...

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