Carroll v. State

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Late in the night of October 3, 1974, the appellant shot and killed her two young children and in an apparent suicide attempt took a large quantity of prescription drugs from which she almost died. This appeal is from her conviction and life sentence in the death of two year old Monty J. Carroll, her youngest son.

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At trial the State introduced testimony of four statements made by the appellant while she was in a hospital recovering from her attempted suicide. The…