State v. Smith

The trial court denied appellant’s petition for post-conviction relief and her motion for new trial which was based upon the grounds of newly discovered evidence. We affirm.

The defendant-appellant Maria Smith was convicted of murder by a jury in 1980 for causing the death of Garfield Boykin. Boykin had been shot three times. One wound was a superficial scalp wound, while a second shot went through the brain. The third wound was to Boykin’s chest, where a large quantity of blood accumulated in the lung. At trial, Smith claimed that Boykin had tried to rape her and, therefore, the shooting was…