State v. Wynne

A jury has found that on September 13, 1934, Grace Wynne shot and killed Mary Thompson. She was tried, found guilty and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment, December 29, 1941 — January 2, 1942. From the facts and circumstances as detailed by the State's witnesses the jury reasonably found that in shooting and killing Mary Thompson she acted purposefully and with malice and was therefore guilty of murder in the second degree.

Briefly the background of the homicide is this: the defendant, Grace Wynne, and John "Jack" Thompson were married in 1913. She divorced him seven years later because…