Goodwin v. State

W. J. HARALSON, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

The appellant was charged with murder in the first degree, convicted of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for 20 years.

At trial on the merits she entered a plea of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity.

It appears from the evidence, both circumstantial and by admission of the appellant, that on September 18, 1965, the appellant stabbed and killed her infant child of six months at her home. At the time of the killing the appellant, her husband, several children from a former marriage, and the…