Brown v. State

— In this ease, the appellant and One Joseph Wade were jointly indicted for murder in the first degree. The indictment charged, that said Wade and the appellant, on the 6th day of February, 1880, at and in the county of Marion, in this State, did unlawfully, feloniously, purposely and with premeditated malice, kill and murder John Brown, etc.

The appellant severed in her defence, and for her plea said that she was not guilty as charged in the indictment. The issues joined were tried by a jury, and a verdict was returned, finding the appellant guilty of murder in the first degree, as charged in…