State v. Wilkinson

The appellant, Wilkinson, appeals from an order of the Missoula County District Court, denying her motion either to withdraw her plea of guilty to a reduced charge of negligent homicide, or be sentenced in accordance with a plea bargain struck by the parties. We affirm the action of the District Court.

The facts surrounding the case involve the death of 19-month-old Paul Tucker Wilkinson, on February 23, 1982, who was found dead in an East Missoula trailer, where he resided with his mother, the appellant, and her boyfriend, William Russell Sigler. Within a month of the death, on March 18,…