Watkins v. State

The defendant, Charlotte Watkins, was tried on an indictment for the murder of James William Booker by cutting, stabbing, and wounding him with a knife. The jury returned a verdict of voluntary manslaughter, and the defendant excepts, assigning error on the general grounds.

It appeared from the defendant’s statement to the jury: That the deceased and the accused were what might be termed in common parlance “sweethearts”; that the deceased’s conduct and treatment of the defendant had in the past been, and during the entire evening on which the present transaction took place .was, somewhat…