State v. Mathis

UDALL, Vice Chief Justice.

The defendant, Cora Bell Mathis, was convicted of the crime of voluntary manslaughter in the Superior Court of Maricopa County, Arizona. The charging part of the information alleges that defendant “ * * * on or about the 1 [st] day of April, 1961 * * * in the County of Maricopa, State of Arizona, did then and there, wilfully, unlawfully, and feloniously, kill one BERNARD MATHIS, a human being, upon a sudden heat of passion * * *."

The record shows that on the 1st day of April 1961 the defendant and her husband, Bernard Mathis, became embroiled in a bitter, violent…