Jackson v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Richardson

— Affirming.

On a separate trial under an indictment charging her, Parthenia Crittenden, and Bessie Crittenden with the crime of infanticide, Helen Jackson was convicted, and her punishment fixed at life in the state reformatory.

On this appeal therefrom, she is insisting she was ■entiled to a directed verdict, the verdict is against the ■evidence and contrary to law, and the court erred in its instructions to the jury.

The basis of her argument that she was entitled to a directed verdict is, the evidence is insufficient to prove the corpus delicti.

It it…