People v. Frost

Defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree and she appeals from the judgment and order denying her motion for a new trial. It is admitted that she killed the deceased with a butcher-knife, but it was and is the contention of defendant that his death was the result of an accident. Her account of it is as follows:

“Well, I was fixing potatoes for supper, boiled potatoes, and I was cutting the ends of them off so salt would go through them when yon cooked them, and as I was standing there it was kind of dark and it was—the shade from the levee—the levee is so high you can’t see when…