Garcia v. State

LOPEZ, AQUILINO, Jr., Associate Judge.

Defendant, Carol Garcia, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment. Defendant and three other defendants, to-wit, Norma A. Roman, Barbara Ann Stetzler and Margaret Pearl Wolford, were indicted for first degree murder. The indictment alleged that Carol Garcia along with the aforementioned other defendants, unlawfully and from a premeditated design to effect the death of Ivan R. Rousseau, did kill and murder the said Rousseau by striking and beating' him. Prior to trial, defendant Garcia and the other defendants moved for a…