Fitzhugh v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant was tried on an indictment charging her with murder in the first degree. The victim was appellant’s 34 months old son, who died as a result of 'strangulation. At the trial below she interposed pleas of not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, and fixed appellant’s punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of ten years.

Two days after the indictment in this case was returned one of the judges of the Tenth Judicial Circuit appointed three Birmingham mental specialists…