Russell v. State

In January, 1910, in the circuit court of Duval county, Trixie Russell, the plaintiff in error, was indicted for the murder of one William Carter, on the 25th day of December, 1909. She was tried in February, 1910, convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of four years. She seeks here on writ of error to reverse this judgment.

The only errors assigned here are based on the rulings of the trial court refusing to give certain requested instructions to the jury, to each of which rulings an exception was properly noted. There are five of these instructions, but they…