Deckard v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

On an indictment charging her with the murder of her husband, Kit Deckard, filed in the District Court of Nacogdoches County, on the 20th day of March, 1907, appellant was at a trial held on April 12, 1909, convicted of the offense of manslaughter, and her punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

That the appellant shot and killed her husband is not denied in the testimony. She interposed a plea of self-defense. The testimony of the State distinctly negatives any self-defense, but accounts for the killing on the ground of jealousy entertained by…