Williams v. State

OPINION

BUSSEY, Presiding Judge:

Dorthalene Willis Williams, hereinafter referred to as the appellant, was convicted before a jury in the District Court of Delaware County, Oklahoma, of Murder in the First Degree. She was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment, and appeals.

In the early morning hours of April 24, 1981, the appellant shot and killed Olen Sharp. She maintained at trial the killing was in self-defense.

The circumstances which led to Mr. Sharp’s death at the hands of the appellant are as follows:

Meda Lively had become partially incapacitated from an automobile accident, and had…