Griffin v. State

Appellant, Beulah Griffin, charged by information with the offense of murder in the first degree alleged to have been committed by shooting to death Helen Mason, another negro woman, was by a jury convicted of voluntary manslaughter and her punishment fixed at two and one-half years confinement in the penitentiary. She has appealed.

For reversal it is first urged by appellant that the verdict was not supported by any substantial testimony.

Appellant admitted doing the shooting, but claimed that she fired in self-defense and that she intended not to kill Helen, but only to stop her in her…