Autrey v. State

The appellant, a negro woman, was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to suffer death.

On the trial she interposed a plea of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity.

The evidence offered iby the state, to quote from the bill of exceptions, “showed that deceased was a girl four years and six months old; that her mother was dead, her father being a widower; that defendant lived in the home of the deceased and her father, and was her father’s concubine. The evidence further showed that the father was attempting to rid himself of defendant, and that defendant had…