Sewell v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Sims, Commissioner

Reversing.

The Grand Jury of the Madison Circuit Court indicted Odie Sewell for the murder of Joe Grimes. The first count in the indictment alleged she killed Grimes by striking and wounding him with a deadly weapon, the character of which was to the grand jury unknown. In a second count, the indictment charged her with being present and aiding and abetting some person to the grand jury unknown with the striking and killing of Grimes. The trial resulted in a conviction of voluntary manslaughter and her punishment was fixed at confinement in the…