Pixley v. State

Appellant, Lois Pixley, was charged by information with the crime of murder in the first degree, the allegation being’: “The said defendant on the 22d day of May, 1941, in Union county, Arkansas, did unlawfully, feloniously and willfully and with malice aforethought and with premeditation and deliberation kill and murder Mary Pixley by striking and beating the said Mary Pixley.”

Upon a trial the jury convicted her of voluntary manslaughter and assessed her punishment at five years in the penitentiary. She has appealed to this court seeking reversal on several grounds. We consider them in the…