PHILLIPS v. STATE

No. 881S202.

436 N.E.2d 1123 (1982)

Ella Rose PHILLIPS, Appellant, v. STATE of Indiana, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

July 7, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leroy K. New, Carmel, for appellant.

Linley E. Pearson, Atty. Gen., Richard Albert Alford, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, for appellee.


GIVAN, Chief Justice.

Appellant was charged along with two co-defendants in one count of murder. A jury found appellant guilty of the crime of Voluntary Manslaughter. Appellant was sentenced to a fifteen year term of imprisonment.

Following are the facts. The decedent, one James Phillips, was the ex-husband of appellant. In the late evening or early morning hours of August 25-26, 1980, appellant went to an Indianapolis bar to drink with one of her brothers...

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