State v. Sharp

Defendants, Mrs. J. S. Sharp and her daughter, Mrs. Lena Lockwood, prosecute this appeal from a conviction without capital punishment and sentence, upon a charge of having murdered J. S. Sharp, the husband of the one and stepfather of the other. A number of bills of exception appear in the record, but counsel for defendant say, in their brief:

“We find that only three of them are serious, and we will not take up the time of the court in discussing the other eleven, except where necessary to substantiate some fact in the case.”

The first bill discussed bears the number 14 and reads as follows:

“Be…