STATE v. AYERS


433 A.2d 356 (1981)

STATE of Maine v. Barbara Thibodeau AYERS and Donald Ayers.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided August 5, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles K. Leadbetter, Herbert Bunker, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen. (orally), Augusta, for plaintiff.

Bither & Goodwin, Thomas L. Goodwin (orally), Houlton, for Barbara Ayers.

Stevens, Engels & Bishop, Jonathan W. Sprague (orally), Richard C. Engels, Presque Isle, for Donald Ayers.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and WERNICK, NICHOLS, ROBERTS and CARTER, JJ.


WERNICK, Justice.

Defendants Donald Ayers and Barbara Thibodeau Ayers1 have appealed from judgments of conviction against them entered in the Superior Court (Aroostook County) on the verdict of a jury, returned in a joint trial, finding each of them guilty of Murder, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 201(1)(A), and of Conspiracy, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 151.

We sustain each defendant's appeal from the judgment of conviction of murder and set aside...

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