State v. Wilson

ROY, C.

Murder.

Defendant was charged with murder in the first degree. The jury convicted her of murder in the second degree, but failed to agree on the punishment. The court sentenced her to ten years in the penitentiary, and she has appealed. She shot and hilled her husband, Martin Wilson, in Poplar Bluff, on November 5, 1911. They were mar*324ried in 1897 in Memphis, Tenn., and lived most of the time after' that at Poplar Bluff. He had been for about ten years prior to his death a railway mail clerk, running out of Poplar Bluff a part of the time to Memphis, Tenn., and at other times to Helena,…