State v. Norman

MITCHELL, Justice.

The defendant was tried at the 16 February 1987 Criminal Session of Superior Court for Rutherford County upon a proper indictment charging her with the first degree murder of her hus*254band. The jury found the defendant guilty of voluntary manslaughter. The defendant appealed from the trial court’s judgment sentencing her to six years imprisonment.

The Court of Appeals granted a new trial, citing as error the trial court’s refusal to submit a possible verdict of acquittal by reason of perfect self-defense. Notwithstanding the uncontroverted evidence that the defendant shot her…