State v. Dayton

Defendant was convicted of the crime of first degree murder. She was charged with killing her husband by running him down with her automobile. The evidence justified a finding that the defendant and her husband had been drinking in their tavern and had engaged in an argument. She left the tavern, secured her automobile, and ran over him as he walked down the sidewalk after he emerged from the tavern.

Defendant’s first assignment of error is based upon *271the court’s admission of the testimony of two police officers as to statements she made to them about twenty minutes after the occurrence in…