Lloyd v. State

Hunt, Justice.

Bernice Mae Lloyd was convicted by a jury and received a life sentence for the murder of her ex-husband, Timothy Manning. She argues that a new trial should have been granted because the verdict is strongly against the weight of the evidence and because certain “dying declarations” should have been excluded.

1. Nothwithstanding her contention, supported by expert testimony, that her acts were the product of fear consistent with the battered woman’s syndrome, 2 the jury was authorized to find that her killing the victim with a shotgun as he approached her in the kitchen of her…