Myers v. State

Appellant, by indictment, was charged with the crime of murder, §2235 Burns 1914, Acts 190.5 p. 584, .§347. She was tried by a jury and convicted of manslaughter. From a judgment that she be imprisoned in the Indiana Women’s Prison for a term of not less than two years nor more than twenty-one years, she prosecuted this appeal, assigning as error the overruling of her motion for a new trial. The causes assigned and properly presented as reasons for a new trial are, that the verdict of the jury was not sustained by sufficient evidence and was contrary to law; error of the court in admitting…