SANCHEZ v. STATE

No. 4696.

567 P.2d 270 (1977)

Joe Blaz SANCHEZ, Appellant (Defendant below), v. The STATE of Wyoming, Appellee (Plaintiff below).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

July 14, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terry W. Mackey and Walter C. Urbigkit, Jr., of Urbigkit, Mackey & Whitehead, Cheyenne, for appellant.

V. Frank Mendicino, Atty. Gen., Gerald A. Stack, Deputy Atty. Gen., Frank R. Chapman, Asst. Atty. Gen., and E. James Burke, legal intern, Cheyenne, for appellee.

John E. Stanfield, Hugh B. McFadden, Jr., John B. Scott, Kathleen H. Fedore, and Janice I. Olson, Laramie, Amicus Curiae Committee for Wyoming Trial Lawyers Ass'n, filed brief of Amicus Curiae.

Before GUTHRIE, C.J., and McCLINTOCK, RAPER, THOMAS and ROSE, JJ.


ROSE, Justice.

FACTS

On February 14, 1975, at about 5:50 a.m., appellant-Joe Blaz Sanchez, a stranger to Jill Heath, knocked on her door in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She answered and appellant asked to speak to her husband or boyfriend, but she said they weren't there. Sanchez then asked to use the phone, but Mrs. Heath refused and tried to shut the door, whereupon appellant pushed the door open and entered. Mrs. Heath ran to the phone and began dialing, but Sanchez...

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