Hagar v. State

ANNABELLE Clinton Imber, Justice.

At issue in this case is stice. lawfully imposed a ten-year prison sentence for the crime of manslaughter. Appellant, Elizabeth Diane Hagar, was charged with first degree murder following the death of her husband, Mark Allen Hagar. Although Mrs. Hagar confessed to shooting her husband two times with a .38 caliber handgun, she claimed that she acted in self-defense after her husband came home in a drunken state and terrorized her with a gun. Following a jury trial, Mrs. Hagar was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term of ten years in the Arkansas…