FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A woman who was initially charged with murder in connection to a fatal stabbing was sentenced Friday on a lesser charge.
A judge in Allen Superior Court handed 48-year-old Yvonne Broadnax 25 years in prison.
Broadnax had pleaded guilty but mentally ill to voluntary manslaughter acting under “sudden heat”, a Level 2 felony. The murder charge was dropped as part of the deal…