PEOPLE v. STALLWORTH

Docket No. 45, Calendar No. 48,716.

364 Mich. 528 (1961)

111 N.W.2d 742

PEOPLE v. STALLWORTH.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided November 30, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul L. Adams, Attorney General, Joseph B. Bilitzke, Solicitor General, Noble O. Moore, Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Owen Dudley, for defendant.


EDWARDS, J.

In the last of a series of drunken attacks upon his wife, George Stallworth suffered a knife wound in the lower abdomen. Four days later, on July 30, 1959, he died from the effects of the knife wound. His wife was charged with his murder.

After trial before a jury in Calhoun circuit court where she pleaded self-defense, the wife, Patricia Stallworth, was found guilty of manslaughter and was sentenced...

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