KVASNIKOFF v. STATE

No. 1985.

521 P.2d 903 (1974)

Emil KVASNIKOFF, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 3, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert D. Soll, Public Defender, Anchorage, Robert G. Coats, Asst. Public Defender, Fairbanks, for appellant.

Norman C. Gorsuch, Atty. Gen., Juneau, Thomas M. Wardell, Dist. Atty., Kenai/Kodiak, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice, ERWIN, BOOCHEVER and FITZGERALD, Justices, and DIMOND, Justice Pro Tem.


ERWIN, Justice.

The determinative issue in this appeal is whether there was sufficient evidence to support the superior court's finding that appellant was guilty of the crime of manslaughter.

At approximately 10:00 p.m. on September 2, 1972, Kitty Kvasnikoff was discovered unconscious in a hotel room in Seward, Alaska. She was taken to a hospital and there pronounced dead. An autopsy determined that she died from internal bleeding caused, according to the...

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