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- Title: State Idaho v. Lawrence C. Thomas and
- Author : 10705 Supreme Court of Idaho Nos. 10704
- Release Date : January 20, 1971
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of second degree murder following a jury trial and verdict of guilty. Defendants
were charged with the crime of first degree murder resulting from the killing of one John C. Combs, a Parma city policeman,
in the early morning hours of September 22, 1969. Combs and his companion, Wong, had received a radio report of an attempted
robbery and discovered a parked car in a remote farm area of Canyon County. Combs left the police vehicle and approached the
parked automobile on foot. When he reached the automobile he was immediately killed by a shotgun blast from the car. Two or
more men got out of that car and approached the police vehicle at which time Wong attempted to hide on the floor boards. Several
more shotgun blasts were fired into the interior of the police vehicle wounding Wong. The men then dragged him from the police
car and drove it away, later wrecking it in a ditch. The only person that Wong could identify in the killing of Combs and
wounding of himself was one Williams. Shortly after the killing of Combs and the subsequent wrecking of the police car, that vehicle was discovered by other police
officers who had no knowledge of the shooting incident nor of the theft of the police car. As the officers arrived at the
scene of the wrecked vehicle, Williams was observed climbing up from a canal bank and shouting "Frank, Frank, I want to give
up." The officers asked "What happened to John Combs?", and Williams replied, "We shot him and his partner too."