Smith v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, assessed by the jury, was twenty-five years imprisonment.

While drinking beer at the home of a neighbor, the appellant and her husband had an argument concerning a package of cigarettes. The appellant’s husband threw a beer bottle at her. The bottle missed her but struck her five-year-old daughter. The appellant left to take her injured daughter to the hospital, but returned and got her husband to go with them. There was another argument about the speed at which the appellant Was driving. When the appellant stopped at an…