Stewart v. State

226 So.2d 911 (1969)

Elsie Davis STEWART

v.

STATE of Mississippi.

No. 45495.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 6, 1969.

Clyde W. Mullins, Cecil Gill Smith, Jr., Natchez, for appellant.

A.F. Summer, Atty. Gen., by G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice.

Elsie Davis Stewart, appellant, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Adams County for shooting Lucille Chatman with intent to kill. Appellant admitted the shooting, but interposed a plea of self-defense. She and Chatman were the only eye witnesses to the incident who testified, and their accounts of…