Trotti v. State

Graves, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder, and her punishment assessed at five years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

She first complains of the overruling of her motion for a continuance in order to obtain the testimony of Robert Rhodes, who, she alleges, would have testified to an attack made upon appellant by deceased, and her mother Pernie Bailey with a knife, at the time of the homicide.

The deceased, Frankie Lee Bailey, was a negro girl, fourteen years old, and on the 13th day of March, 1937, she and her mother were passing by appellant’s house, and were accosted by appellant, who…