State v. Perkins

Kenna, Judge:

Katherine Perkins was indicted, by a grand jury of Wayne County for the murder of her husband, P. P. Perkins. She pleaded not guilty, was tried and convicted of murder of the second degree, and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of five to eighteen years. She brings the case here by writ of error.

On the evening of September 1, 1944, defendant, while riding in the automobile of a friend on Monroe Avenue in the City of Huntington, observed her husband in his automobile embracing a woman. At the request of defendant, the automobile was stopped, and defendant then went to the…