Washington V. Bingham

We are asked to decide whether the time to effect death by manual strangulation is alone sufficient to support a finding of premeditation in the absence of any other evidence supporting such a finding. We hold it is not. Accordingly, we reverse the conviction of Charles Dean Bingham for aggravated first degree murder. We also overrule State v. Smith, 12 Wash. App. 720, 531 P.2d 843 (1975),*fn1 to the extent that it can be read to hold otherwise.