Brown v. State

Nichols, Chief Justice.

Jeanne Brown was indicted, tried and convicted for the murder of her husband, George Ray Brown, by cutting and stabbing him with a knife. She was sentenced to life imprisonment and, after a motion for new trial was overruled, the present appeal was filed. The defendant testified under oath that the victim, while in a drunken condition, fell against a knife that she was holding and that she did not intend to kill him. The knife penetrated the victim’s chest some four inches and punctured three of the four chambers of the heart. The defendant’s testimony as to the drunken…