Sheilah C. Hicks v. United States

BURGER, Circuit Judge:

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to prison for a term of two to eight years for killing one Hoyte White, the man with whom she lived. She claims on appeal (1) that an oral admission that she stabbed White was improperly admitted into evidence; (2) that it was improper for the Government in rebuttal to read from Appellant’s subsequent written statement; and (3) that there was not sufficient evidence corroborating Appellant’s statements for the case to go to the jury.

Appellant and White lived in a second-floor room of a rooming house. At about 5:00 a.…