Woods v. State

Hill, Justice.

The jury found the defendant guilty of murder and she was sentenced to life in prison. The jury was authorized from the evidence to find that on the night in question the defendant and the victim had an argument at the victim’s trailer, that the defendant’s husband broke up the fight between the two women by forcing his wife to the floor, and that the defendant and her husband then went to their own trailer located about 200 feet away. A half hour later, the defendant returned to the victim’s trailer carrying a butcher knife. When the victim opened the trailer door, the…