Stoudt v. People

By direct information Mary Ellen Stoudt was charged with the murder of Jerry Quinton Ives. To this charge she pled not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the alleged commission of the crime. Upon trial a jury of her peers determined that the defendant was sane at the time of the offense and then adjudged her guilty of murder in the second degree. Thereafter Stoudt was duly sentenced to a term of from fifteen to twenty-five years in the State Penitentiary.

By writ of error Stoudt now seeks a reversal of her conviction and sentence and as grounds therefor contends that…