Williams v. State

McHaNEy, Justice.

By information filed November 2, 1942, appellant, a Negro woman, was charged with murder in the first degree for the shooting and killing of another Negro woman, Lucille Williams. She was tried and convicted, at the March, 1946, term of Court, of involuntary manslaughter, and sentenced to one year in the State penitentiary.

When the case was called for trial appellant filed a motion to be discharged under the provisions of § 3969 of Pope’s Digest, she having been admitted to bail on or shortly after her arrest, on the ground that she had not been “brought to trail before the…