Stover v. State

The appellant, Annie Stover, a white woman and a housewife, fifty-one years of age, admittedly killed her brother-in-law Bela Kiss, by shooting him with a pistol. She was indicted by the grand jury at the March, 1931, term of court, for the offense of murder in the first degree, and upon arraignment interposed dual pleas of not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity. The trial resulted in her conviction for the offense of manslaughter in the first degree and the jury fixed her punishment at ten- years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.

Upon the trial, the special plea of not guilty by…