Peele v. State

CHAPMAN, J.:

The appellant, Edna Peele, was indicted by a grand jury of Bradford County, Florida, for the first degree murder of Ancil Thompson on August 14, 1943, in Bradford County, Florida. When arraigned in open court she entered a plea of not guilty and was placed upon trial before a jury, who, after hearing all the testimony of the parties and the charges or instructions of the trial court upon the applicable law of the case, returned a verdict of fnanslaughter. A motion for a new trial was made and denied, when the appellant was sentenced to serve a period of eighteen months at hard…