Butler v. State

The appellant, Johnnie Butler, and her son, J. C. Butler, were jointly indicted in the Circuit Court of Hum-phreys County for the murder of Ora Butler, who was the daughter-in-law of the appellant Johnnie Butler, and the wife of the said J. C. Butler. A severance was applied for and granted, and the appellant, Johnnie Butler, was tried at the July 1952 term of the Circuit Court of Humphreys County and convicted of murder. The jury disagreed as to her punishment and she was accordingly sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for. life. From this conviction, she prosecutes this…