Levert v. State

Appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree. Her jury trial resulted in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the first degree and a penalty of imprisonment in the State penitentiary for a term of ten years.

Appellant was the wife of deceased, having been married to him about eight years.

The state's evidence tends to show that on 31 January 1947, the appellant stabbed the deceased in the lower part of the neck with a pocket knife, from which wound the deceased died within a few minutes.

According to the testimony of state's witness, Frank Cornelius, who was a visitor in the home of…