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Title: State Idaho v. William O. Baker
Author : Court of Appeals of Idaho No. 13685
Release Date : January 13, 1982
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 59 KB

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It was a shotgun blast in the early morning that killed Merardo Rodriguez. As he lay on the floor of his house, his wife placed a pillow beneath his head and watched him die. The wife's father, William Baker, stood a few feet away, in his night clothes, holding the shotgun. He leaned the gun against a wall, went upstairs to dress, and waited for the police to arrive. From this tragic denouement of family conflict came a prosecution for first degree murder. Baker never denied the killing. He claimed that Rodriguez had been drunk, had threatened him, and that the gun was fired in self-defense. A jury found Baker guilty only of voluntary manslaughter. The district court sentenced him to the custody of the Board of Correction for an indeterminate term not exceeding six years. In this appeal, Baker contends that the jury was not adequately instructed on the law of self-defense, that the court's response to an inquiry from the jury was erroneous, and that the sentence was excessive. We affirm both the judgment of conviction and the sentence imposed.