Hearn v. State

Banke, Judge.

The appellant was indicted for murder after she shot and killed her husband during an argument in their home. She was convicted of voluntary manslaughter as a lesser included offense and filed this direct appeal.

1. It was not error to overrule the appellant’s motion for directed verdict of acquittal, although her own account of the incident, in which she claimed that she had acted in self-defense, was the only evidence identifying her as the person who had done the shooting. A jury may be authorized to rely on the incriminating portion of a defendant’s testimony while rejecting…