Yandell v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
1Opinion of the Court
Darrell Hickman, Justice.
Charla Fell Yandell was charged in Clay County Circuit Court with the second degree murder of her infant seventeen month old boy. She was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to seven years imprisonment in the state penitentiary.
Mrs. Yandell alleges four errors on appeal, but essentially they amounfto two: the facts did not warrant nor will they support her conviction; and a doctor from Mexico, unlicensed in the United States, was permitted erroneously to give expert medical testimony.
We find no error in the record.
Mrs. Yandell persisted in her innocence…
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