Vuyacich

Defendant was charged by information with the crime of murder and convicted of manslaughter.

Little need be said of the evidence, as it is not claimed that it is insufficient to sustain a conviction. Briefly stated, it is as follows:

The accused was the wife of one Steve Vuyacich, who was murdered on or about the ninth day of May, 1921. She had been carrying on illicit relations with one Nick Jaramoaz and they had planned to elope, for the reason given by her that her husband was cruel and had choked one of their children to death. Early in the morning of the day following the commission of the crime here charged, defendant called on her neighbors and informed them that her husband had been murdered by robbers. Shortly thereafter her paramour was arrested and accused of having committed the deed. There is evidence to show that prior to the arrest of defendant for participation in the crime she talked over the matter of the killing of her husband with a woman acquaintance, and related to her the manner in which he had been killed. In this conversation she stated that she and her paramour had killed him and had for a long time intended to do so, that they wanted him to insure his…