Worring v. State

Donald L. Corbin, Judge.

Appellant was charged with murder in the first degree in violation of Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-1502 (Repl. 1977). Following a trial by jury, she was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. She alleges five points of error on appeal. One point is meritorious. We reverse the judgment and remand the case for retrial.

On December 11, 1978, appellant Carla Worring had followed her husband’s truck to a darkened area behind a truck terminal in Stuttgart, Arkansas. She found her husband seated in a parked automobile with…