Edwards v. State

Jordan, Justice.

Appellant, Catherine Edwards, appeals from her conviction of murder and life sentence.

1. At trial a witness for the state testified that he witnessed the shooting, that appellant and her husband were quarrelling while standing in the parking lot of a liquor store and that as her husband turned and walked away, she shot him four times with a .38 revolver. Appellant admitted killing her husband, but claimed that she did so in self-defense. However, the evidence is sufficient to support the jury’s verdict of murder, and appellant’s motion for new trial on general grounds was…