Simmons v. State

CATES, Judge.

This appeal purports to be from a judgment of conviction of guilt of manslaughter in the first degree

We excerpt from the minute entry as set out in the certified transcript of the circuit court’s record:

“MINUTE ENTRY

“Thereupon came a jury of good and lawful men, to-wit, A. D. Taunton Foreman and eleven others, who being impannelled and sworn as required by law, on their oaths do say: ‘We, the jury, find the defendant Katie Lou Simmons, alias, guilty of Manslaughter in the First Degree as charged in the indictment, and fix her punishment at Eight (8) years in the Penitentiary of…