State v. Laspy

LEEDY, Judge.

Elsie Mae Laspy (hereinafter referred to as defendant) appeals from a judgment convicting her of manslaughter in having shot and killed her husband, Julius, and by which she was sentenced to a term of ten years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary in accordance with the verdict. She has been thrice convicted under the instant information (two times for second degree murder, and currently for manslaughter), and this is her second appeal. See 298 S. W.2d 3S7 for a more complete statement of the facts than is deemed necessary to a determination of the questions raised by the points now…