Dunkin v. Citizens Bank of Jonesboro

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

At issue in this appeal is the obligation of a defendant in a wrongful death case to respond to interrogatories or to assert properly her objection on the basis that her responses might be self-incriminating. The trial court ordered the defendant, who is the appellant here, to respond, and, when she refused he struck her answer in which she had pled self-defense. This appeal is from the order striking the answer. We affirm.

The appellant, Kathy (Cooper) Dunkin, married Everett Ercell Dunkin on August 23, 1984. Seventeen days later they separated and on September…