State v. Houchins

Midler, Judge :

Upon an indictment for the murder of Lewis Romans, returned by the grand jury in the Criminal Court of Raleigh County, defendant, on her trial before the jury, was found guilty, not of first degree murder, nor of second degree murder, but of voluntary manslaughter, as charged in the indictment, upon which verdict the criminal court, on November 13, 1925, adjudged that she be confined in the penitentiary for the period of five years.

Upon a writ of error to this judgment the circuit court of said county, as it appears from the record, was of opinion that there was no error in the…