Church v. State

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of Neshoba County, wherein appellant, Mrs. Maggie Church, was tried for the murder of her husband, George Church, and was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to serve a term of ten years in the penitentiary. Mrs. Church was jointly indicted with her son, a minor, for this crime, and he was thereafter sent to the Mississippi Industrial' and Training School at Columbia, ‘Mississippi. On a former trial, the appellant was convicted of murder and her case was appealed to this Court. Whereupon, the cause was reversed for a new trial, the decision being…