State v. Denson

HOLOHAN, Justice.

Following a plea bargain in which charges of murder and assault with a deadly weapon were reduced to voluntary manslaughter, and in which several forgery charges were dropped, Maria Rosa Denson entered a plea of guilty to the voluntary manslaughter charge. She was sentenced to confinement. A timely appeal was filed questioning whether the court sufficiently advised the defendant of the elements of voluntary manslaughter.

It was not necessary for the trial court to recite the elements of the offense charged. State v. Howell, 109 Ariz. 165, 506 P.2d 1059 (1973); State v.…