Hood v. Vandevender

BANKS, Justice,

for the Court:

This case requires us to consider whether evidence of a guilty plea to the charge of manslaughter is sufficient, standing alone, to enable a fact finder to conclude that one is prohibited from inheriting under our statutes which precluding one who willfully kills another from inheriting from that person. We follow established precedent and hold that it is not. We are also asked to decide whether a, foreclosure must be set aside for the sole reason that a subsequently filed “corrected” deed of trust was of record. Because nothing on the face of the “corrected” deed…