Gainer v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was tried in the Circuit Court of Jackson County upon an indictment charging her with murder in the second degree in the unlawful killing of her husband, and a verdict of manslaughter was returned by the jury upon which she was sentenced to the State prison for a period of five years. The case is here upon writ of error, and the only assignments of error presented and argued are based upon the insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict.

It is unnecessary to enter into any extended discussion of the testimony. It appears that…