Whitfield v. State

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This appeal arises out of a murder without malice conviction wherein the punishment was assessed by the jury at two years.

In her first two grounds of error, appellant contends the trial court erred in overruling her motion for an instructed verdict when the State rested its case in chief, and another such motion after both sides closed “in that all of the evidence showed the defendant was acting in defense of her life.” It is her contention that the evidence shows self-defense as a matter of law.

It is undisputed that appellant stabbed the deceased, Carl Eugene…