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- Title: Timothy Gieffels v. State Alaska
- Author : Supreme Court of Alaska
- Release Date : January 02, 1979
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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BURKE, Justice. OPINION. On August 11, 1976, appellant Timothy Gieffels was convicted by a jury of manslaughter for the killing of Daniel Laughlin. In this appeal, Gieffels' major contentions are that the trial court erroneously refused to dismiss the indictment against him and to suppress certain key evidence, and that the trial court erred in its instructions to the jury. The facts may be summarized as follows: On June 23, 1975, shortly before 6:30 a.m., Johnny Rochelle went to The Pines, an Anchorage nightclub, to cash a check. Rochelle found Daniel Laughlin, the bartender-janitor at The Pines shot through the head. It appeared that the deceased had been killed only a little while before Rochelle's arrival. It was later determined that the victim had been shot with his own gun, a .44 magnum Sturm-Ruger revolver. The owner of The Pines, Russ Pace, reported that $1,436.16 in cash was missing, including some $75.00 in silver dollars and half dollars.