Joyce v. State

Appellant, Isabella Joyce, was indicted and tried on a charge of murder and was convicted of manslaughter, and from this conviction and the sentence imposed, this appeal was prosecuted.

Shortly before the fatal difficulty occurred, the appellant and the deceased were in adjoining rooms, from each of which a door opened onto a front porch extending entirely across the front of the two rooms. While these parties were in these separate rooms a controversy arose between them, and shortly thereafter they met on the front porch near the doors of the respective rooms of the house; a fight immediately…