State v. Goettina

OPINION

Blume, Chief Justice.

In this case the defendant, James J. Goettina, was charged in the District Court of Sweetwater County, Wyoming, with murder in the first degree for killing one Frances Goettina, his wife. The defendant pleaded not guilty and claimed, upon the trial, that he killed deceased in self-defense, and further that the homicide was accidental. He was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced by the court. From that judgment he has appealed to this court.

The defendant was 56 years of age and the deceased 31 years of age at the time of the homicide herein. Defendant first came…