Garrett v. State

The defendant, Frances Garrett, was charged in the district court of Murray county with the crime of murder; was tried; convicted of manslaughter in the first degree; and pursuant to the verdict of the jury was sentenced to serve the minimum term of four years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The defendant, about 3 o’clock a. m. on September 6, 1949, fired a bullet into Onis Curtsinger from a .38 Smith and Wesson revolver. The bullet struck the deceased in the left part of his chest, which caused his death in just a few minutes.

Mrs. Nell Curtsinger, widow of the deceased, testified that prior…