Levert v. State

FOSTER, Justice.

The appellant in this case was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree for the killing of her husband by stabbing him in the neck with a pocket knife. There seems to have been no eyewitness to the event. The defendant admitted the killing in a confession and as a witness for herself, but claimed self-defense, and her evidence tended to establish that defense.

The State introduced Frank Cornelius as a witness, who testified that a short time before the stabbing he was a visitor at the house of defendant and her husband, and about five minutes after he left the house he…