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17 Utah 2d 394

412 P.2d 923

State v. Pierce

Utah Supreme Court

Decided April 12, 1966

Utah Supreme Court · decided 1966-04-12

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1968

2 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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Decided 1966-04-12

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HENRIOD, Chief Justice:

¶1 Appeal from a second degree murder conviction involving a glue-sniffing episode. Affirmed.

¶2 Deceased and defendant,' — teenagers,'—sat in defendant’s apartment sniffing glue. Defendant left and returned saying the deceased, whom he later stabbed, was crying, saying ghosts came in through the wall after he left, which ghosts were arguing whether deceased should go with the white or the colored people,- — all hearsay volunteered by the defendant. Defendant said deceased asked him to turn the lights off ’til the ghosts returned. Next defendant said he saw the deceased bleeding when he turned the lights on. He fled and told officers he had attempted to stab the ghosts. The officers found deceased’s wallet containing $25 on defendant at this time.

¶3 Defendant urges that there was error in failure to 1) instruct about hallucinations,, etc., 2) to instruct as to voluntary manslaughter, and others.

¶4 We are unimpressed and see no error in this case. We affirm the jury’s verdict and the court’s judgment based thereon.

McDonough, wade and callis-TER, JJ., concur. CROCKETT, J., concurs in the result.
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