Roberts v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The indictment contained three counts, each count charging this appellant and her 16 year old son with the offense of murder in the second degree. Count 2 was charged out by the court, and properly so, as there was no evidence in the ease to sustain the material allegations of said count. A severance was granted, and this appellant, Willie Roberts, a woman, was put to trial on counts 1 and 3 of the indictment, wherein she was charged with killing J. W., alias William, alias Shorty, Roberts by choking him with a rope (first count) and by strangling him with a rope, in…