WEAVER, J.
Defendant appeals from his conviction and sentence for first degree assault.
The facts are simple. About noon on February 21, 1967, after a private conversation in the home of a mutual friend, defendant stabbed his estranged wife in the back with a pocket knife as she preceded him out of a room. Defendant's wife, now divorced, spent 23 days in the hospital.
In a signed statement (the admissibility of which is questioned on this appeal),...
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