Duff v. State

CATES, Judge.

The January, 1957, Tuscaloosa County Grand Jury indicted Jewel Pearl Duff for first degree murder in killing Herbert Riddle by shooting him with a pistol.

She appeals her conviction of murder in the second degree, for which she was sentenced to twenty years’ penal servitude, and from the overruling of her motion for a new trial.

The tendency of the prosecution’s case was:

April 19, 1957, about 10:30 or 11:00, P.M., Dr. A. W. Davidson examined Riddle, a seventeen year old boy, at the Bessemer General Hospital. Through his right thigh he had a bullet wound running from left to right…