People v. Willis

The appellant was charged by indictment with having murdered one Dr. Beecher B. Baldwin on or about the eleventh day of April, 1924. She admitted having killed him, but her defense was that he attacked her in her apartment while he was intoxicated, and that she shot him in defense of her person and her honor. A verdict was returned by the jury finding her guilty of murder in the first degree, with a recommendation of imprisonment for life, and she appeals from the judgment and order denying her motion for new trial.

Many grounds for reversal are assigned in appellant’s briefs, which consist of…