State v. Brewer

MARTIN, Justice.

Defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree of her daughter, Sherry Bullard. From a judgment of life imprisonment, defendant appealed. She contends that the trial court erred in failing to grant her motion to dismiss at the close of the evidence and by failing to submit second-degree murder to the jury. We hold that there was no error in defendant’s trial.

At approximately 9:00 p.m. on 20 October 1988, defendant was driving her 1988 Beretta automobile with her daughter sitting beside her in the passenger seat. Sherry, then sixteen years old, was mentally handicapped…