Bustamonte v. People

Plaintiff in error, Dorothy Bustamonte, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted by a jury of second degree murder following the shooting of one Charles M. Dyson. She was thereafter sentenced to not less than ten years nor more than fifteen years imprisonment at hard labor.

Defendant urges five grounds for reversal which can be summarized as follows, to-wit:(1) The trial court erred in refusing to submit to the jury original numbered Instruction No. 14 on self-defense which was later tendered and refused as defendant’s Instruction No. 1;(2) It was error to admit in evidence on rebuttal,…