Gibbs v. State

The defendant was convicted of manslaughter, and she excepts to the overruling of her motion for a new trial. The evidence in substance shows that the defendant, Laura Gibbs, and one Charles Metcalf had been living together for several years; that Metcalf was a bootlegger and kept his whisky at the home of Bertha Piper, the deceased, and often stayed there during the day and until late at night; that on the night of the killing the defendant went to the home of Bertha Piper for Metcalf, and stated that she wasn’t going to come there another time to call him out of that house; that a row…