Goings v. State

The defendant was charged with murdering her husband, Jack Goings, by stabbing him with a knife. On her trial she was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Her motion for a new trial, based on the usual general grounds and two special grounds, was denied, and she has brought the present writ of error to have that judgment reviewed.

1. Where grounds of a motion for new trial are not argued orally or in the brief of counsel for the plaintiff in error and are not generally insisted upon, such grounds will be treated by this court as having been abandoned. The general grounds and special ground…