The State - News from Nov. 29, 1985

A Hmong refugee from Southeast Asia who said he was carrying out an ethnic tradition when he shot and killed his wife last March because she had been unfaithful, was sentenced to eight years in prison in Fresno County Superior Court. Tou Moua had been convicted of manslaughter in the death of Yeg Yang Moua. During the trial, Hmong culture experts testified that Moua was simply carrying out a Hmong tradition that says a wife’s adultery is punishable by death and that the husband must be the executioner. Four of Moua’s five children were in the courtroom when the sentence was handed down.