Wiggins v. State

L. A. Smith, Sr., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This appellant was indicted for murder of Onedia Green and convicted of manslaughter in the Circuit Court of Copiah County. The appellant is a colored woman, as was the deceased, and the controversy had its inception in a triangle involving the husband of deceased. The evidence on the part of the state and on the part of the appellant is sharply contradictory, and the witnesses offered by the defense in the trial court were contradictory of each other to some extent.

At the conclusion of the state’s testimony, appellant moved to exclude…