Friley v. Commonwealth

SIMS, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Rose Friley, was tried on an indictment charging her with willful murder. She was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and her punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for ten years. In seeking a reversal of the judgment she argues but two grounds: (1) The court erred to her prejudice in his rulings on evidence;' (2) the instructions did not give the whole law of the case.

The tragedy occurred about 8 o’clock on the evening of September IS, 1951. In the afternoon of that day appellant and the wife of Taylor Cornett, Jr., the man who, was killed, “had…