State v. Elias

Gallagher, Chief Justice.

Defendant was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. She appeals from an order denying her motion to set aside the verdict of the jury and the judgment and sentence of the court and to grant a new trial.

Reduced to its simplest terms, the indictment accuses defendant •of killing her husband, Joseph Elias, on July 18, 1937.

Elias and his wife lived in St. Louis Park in this state. On the •evening in question defendant went to Hopkins, where she was later joined by her husband. On the way home they quarreled, and it appears that decedent slapped his wife. Arriving…