District Court of Appeal of Florida

Defendant's conviction and sentence for manslaughter with a knife for the stabbing death of her husband is affirmed over a claim that the trial court erred in excluding testimony about an incident that occurred years before the stabbing, during which the decedent was alleged to have threatened two men.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/07/2006
• Published 04/07/2006

Judges

• LAWSON, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James S. Purdy, Public Defender, and Marvin F. Clegg, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Bonnie Jean Parrish, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.