State v. Green

Berry, Justice:

This is an appeal by Dorothy Corinne Green, the defendant below and hereinafter referred to as defendant, from a final judgment of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County entered October 16, 1972, wherein the court overruled defendant’s motion to set aside the jury verdict of guilty of second degree murder and to grant the defendant a new trial and sentenced her to a term of not less than five years nor more than eighteen years in prison. Defendant’s primary contention is that the trial court erred in not giving several of her instructions to the jury on self-defense. On April…