Jolly v. State

On March 9, 1979, fourteen year old Pamela Allegood was killed when the automobile in which she was riding was "rear-ended" by the automobile driven by the defendant. As a result, the defendant was indicted for first degree murder. A jury convicted her of murder in the second degree and fixed punishment at ten years' imprisonment.

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The defendant maintains in this Court, as she did at trial, that the evidence is insufficient to establish the offense of murder in the second degree, the crime of which she was convicted, or to establish the lesser included offenses of manslaughter in the first and…