Campbell v. State

Mobley, Justice.

Gwendolyn Campbell was indicted, tried, and convicted of the murder of one Willie James Heard by shooting him with a pistol and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The appeal is from that judgment and sentence. She enumerates as error the overruling of her motion for new trial on the general grounds, and the refusal of the court to permit a witness to answer the question: “How many times have you seen the deceased with a pistol about his person?”

The general grounds. The accused admitted in her statement that she shot and killed the deceased, Willie James Heard, but stated that…