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STATE v. HODGES

No. 57,817

239 Kan. 63 (1986)

716 P.2d 563

STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. JOAN E. HODGES, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed March 28, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl E. Cornwell, of Kansas City, argued the cause and was on the brief for the appellant.

Nick A. Tomasic, district attorney, argued the cause, and Robert T. Stephan, attorney general, and Ted Baird and Catherine M. Foster, assistant district attorneys, were with him on the briefs for the appellee.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

SCHROEDER, C.J.:

This is a criminal action in which Joan Hodges (defendant-appellant) appeals from her conviction by a Wyandotte County jury of voluntary manslaughter (K.S.A. 21-3403) in the shooting of her husband, Harvey Hodges. The defendant claims the trial court erred in refusing to permit expert testimony on the battered woman syndrome and erred in its instructions to the jury on self-defense by using the word...

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