Dickins v. State

The appellant, Mrs. Ruth Thompson Dickins, was indicted by the Grand Jury of Washington County for the murder of her mother, Mrs. Idella Long Thompson, and was found guilty of the charge by the jury, which was unable to agree upon the punishment, and she was by the Court sentenced to a life term in the penitentiary.

Mrs. Thompson lived on Deer Creek Drive in the City of Leland, and her daughter, Mrs. Dickins, the appellant, lived on the same street with only two houses between the home of Mrs. Thompson and the home of Mrs. Dickins.

On the afternoon of November 17, 1948, Dr. K.L. Witte received…