Grissom v. State

The appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree. She was by a jury found guilty of murder in the second degree and her punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of ten years.

At her trial below the appellant pleaded not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity.

On May, 14, 1943 the appellant, the deceased, Mrs. Ida Collier, and some six or seven other persons, including the daughters of the deceased were in a field in Colbert County chopping cotton. They had just reassembled after the noon recess. The appellant had been in the field before noon, but had not…