State v. Kleman

GARRARD, Judge.

Patricia Kleman was tried by a jury and was convicted of murder in the shooting death of one Terry Beebe. Under a second count she was also convicted of criminal recklessness.

Upon her subsequent motion to correct errors the court determined that the murder verdict was contrary to and not supported by the evidence. It vacated the conviction of murder and found Kleman guilty of voluntary manslaughter.1

The state appeals.

At the outset we are confronted with a question of whether the state's appeal was timely taken. The court's order granting in part the motion to correct errors was…