Harris v. State

The appellant, Larcena Gail Harris, was convicted of criminally negligent homicide, a violation of § 13A-6-4, Code of Alabama 1975. She was sentenced to serve one year in the Mobile County jail.

The evidence tended to show that the appellant killed Jeremiah Pugh, her live-in boyfriend. The appellant and Pugh were having a dispute when she hit him with a piece of glass cookware. The cookware broke and a sharp edge cut into Pugh's jugular vein. He bled to death.

The appellant argues that the circuit court erred in allowing testimony concerning her post-Miranda1 silence to be received into…