Guilty plea in stabbing death

Published: Friday, Oct. 3 2008 12:32 a.m. MDT

LOGAN — A woman accused of stabbing her husband to death has struck a plea deal with prosecutors.

Bonnie Rae Harper, 57, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in 1st District Court to a second-degree felony manslaughter charge in the death of James Harper, 48. In exchange, court records said Cache County prosecutors dismissed a class C misdemeanor intoxication charge.

Harper will be sentenced on Nov. 21.

Harper is accused of stabbing her husband in the back during a fight at their Logan home on Aug. 21.

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