PEOPLE v. LULA WATKINS

Docket No. 18534.

60 Mich. App. 124 (1975)

230 N.W.2d 338

PEOPLE v. LULA WATKINS

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided April 7, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cahalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Patricia J. Boyle, Principal Attorney, Research, Training & Appeals, and John C. Mouradian, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Fieger, Golden & Cousens, for defendant.

Before: ALLEN, P.J., and McGREGOR and M.F. CAVANAGH, JJ.


M.F. CAVANAGH, J.

The defendant was convicted of manslaughter, MCLA 750.321; MSA 28.553, by a jury trial in Wayne County Circuit Court. Subsequently, she was sentenced to a term of 1 to 15 years in prison.

On April 19, 1973, between 10 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., the defendant's husband, Tommie Watkins, received a fatal gunshot wound. Police officers arrived on the scene a short time later and then drove him a short distance to the hospital.

On appeal defendant...

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