People v. Ridener

The defendant was found guilty by a jury of voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to the State Reformatory for Women. On this appeal, she contends that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of other crimes. The crime for which she was tried occurred on May 31, 1965. Two police officers were called to the defendant’s home where they found the defendant, her wounded husband, and a 12-gauge shotgun with a discharged shell in it. The police took the defendant to the police station, where she gave a statement to the police admitting that she had shot her husband and gave the details of…