Anderson

The appellant brings this appeal from a judgment of conviction of the crime of manslaughter and from the order of the court denying her motion for a new trial.

The principal point discussed in the brief of appellant is the contention that the trial court erred in receiving in evidence certain written and oral admissions and confessions made by her to the police officers without other and further proof of the corpus delicti. This point, however, was abandoned on the oral argument and it will therefore receive no further attention at the hands of the court.

It is insisted that the court erred in admitting in evidence a certain letter addressed to the appellant under her former name of Josephine O ’Halloran. The evidence shows that the appellant and her husband—of whose unlawful killing she was convicted—had some differences and quarrels and that he was jealous of her. The letter was dated on March 7, 1921, and long after her marriage to the deceased. The homicide occurred on October 15, 1921. It was written in reply to a letter addressed by the appellant to the writer and in answer to a matrimonial advertisement. The letter is as follows:

The appellant admitted to the officer…