Hornsby v. State

OPINION

DWYER, Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction of a wife for murder in the second degree for killing her husband, with punishment affixed by the jury at confinement for not less than ten years nor more than ten years in the State Penitentiary. From the judgment entered thereon this appeal has been duly and seasonably perfected, premised primarily on the theory that the killing was an act of self-defense.

We have read this voluminous record with the knowledge of the following settled rules of law. In this court the defendant has lost her presumption of innocence by the jury verdict…