Webster v. State

HERRMANN, Justice.

The jury found the defendant Webster guilty of involuntary manslaughter after trial on an indictment for murder in the second degree. Upon this appeal, the defendant asserts several grounds of reversible error in the trial.

I

The defendant’s version of the facts is as follows:

The defendant and her husband had been quarreling about his threat to leave her. On the occasion of an earlier separation, the defendant had been frightened by prowlers and she decided to purchase a gun for self-protection. On the morning of the fatal shooting, at the defendant’s request, a friend…