Anderson v. State

Prom a judgment of conviction of the offense of manslaughter in the first degree, carrying therewith a sentence of imprisonment in the penitentiary for four years, the term fixed by the verdict of the jury, this defendant, appealed. She was charged in the indictment with murder in the first degree.

■ In this decision no good purpose can be subserved by a-recitation of the sordid, odious, noxious, and disgusting facts adduced upon this trial in the court below.

It has well been said that courts of law are not invested with the powers of selection. They must take the law as it is imposed upon,…