Thompson v. State

Appellant stabbed 'her husband, Leary Thompson, in the heart, and from this wound he died. She was indicted for murder in the first degree, tried and convicted of murder in the second degree. Her punishment was fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of ten years.

The “setting” of the tragedy, which gives rise to this whole proceeding, including this appeal, is substantially as follows:

They — the colored population of the locality —wer.e having, or to have, a “Christmas tree” in the church in “Methodist Bottom,” in the town of Enterprise, on Christmas night, or perhaps it was…