State v. Lucero

This is an appeal by defendant from a manslaughter conviction involving the death of her husband by stabbing. The case was tried by jury in the district court of Yellowstone County before the Honorable E. E. Fenton, District Judge.

The principal question in this appeal is the admission in evidence at the trial of a written statement signed by defendant in the Yellowstone County jail about two and one-half hours after her arrest and incarceration. The statement was secured by a deputy sheriff during his interrogation of the defendant without counsel at 2:40 o’clock a. m.

Defendant is Ramona…