Dillard v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

This appellant was put to trial upon an indictment which charged her with the offense of murder in the first degree, in that she unlawfully and with malice aforethought killed Murie Ruffin by shooting him with a gun or pistol, etc.

The record appears regular in all respects, and from the judgment entry it is disclosed that, the trial., in the lower court resulted in the conviction of the defendant of manslaughter in the first degree, and her punishment was fixed, by the jury, at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of five years.

The evidence is without dispute…