VAIL v. STATE

Nos. 3309, 3382.

599 P.2d 1371 (1979)

Sidney Lee VAIL, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee. Timothy TAYLOR, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 7, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Stanley Ditus and Cynthia F. Covell, for appellant Vail.

Sue Ellen Tatter, Asst. Public Defender, and Brian Shortell, Public Defender, Anchorage, for appellant Taylor.

W.H. Hawley, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and CONNOR, BOOCHEVER, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ.


OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

Timothy Taylor and Sidney Lee Vail appeal from convictions of first degree murder.1

On the morning of September 21, 1975, the body of Michael Sickles was discovered in a wooded vacant lot near downtown Anchorage. The corpse bore multiple stab wounds. It was later established at trial that these wounds were inflicted by two different knives. The police...

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