CLAYTON, Justice.
The appellant, Lanorma Wooster Pace, was indicted for murder in the Harlan Circuit Court in connection with the March 1976 shooting death of her husband, Charles Pace. A jury of her peers found Lanorma guilty of the lesser included offense of first-degree manslaughter and sentenced her to 20 years' imprisonment, the maximum penalty for that crime. See KRS 507.030, 532.060(2)(b).
Lanorma contends here, among other things, that the trial...
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