Johnson v. State

Prior to her trial and conviction of the murder of Miss Annie Laura Conklin, an elderly lady, who was brutally beaten to death with a stick, fire-poker, and a pair of tongs in her home, at Vicksburg, where she lived alone, the appellant, Mildred Louise Johnson, alias Mildred Louise James, made at first a full confession of her participation in the crime, implicating two other persons, her common-law husband, Jessie James, and father-in-law, Charles H. Bartley, Jr., but later when being arraigned under the indictment in open court, announced to the trial judge that she alone had committed the…