Wooten Et Ux. v. State

Plaintiffs in error, a mother and a sixteen year old son, appeal from convictions of the mother of second-degree murder, with a sentence of ten years, and of the son of voluntary manslaughter, with a sentence of two years in the reform school, in the killing of John Barnes, a brother of Mrs. Wooten.

Brothers and a sister of Mrs. Wooten, a widow fifty-six years of age, living on her farm, objected to Mrs. Wooten’s having one Henry Speck live in her home, because of talk and rumors of improper relations between the parties. Peeling had developed, directed particularly against iSpeck. Members of…