Francina King v. United States

LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge:

Appellant was charged with second degree murder, but convicted of manslaughter for the fatal stabbing of her brother, Benjamin King, on November 22,1964. She was sentenced to imprisonment for two to ten years.

The salient physical facts with respect to the crime are briefly as follows: On the afternoon of November 22, 1964, appellant went out to get some wine and beer. She returned to the residence she shared with her mother, drank the wine and beer, and was more or less “high” at the time her brother returned to the house. Benjamin hit her, apparently out of anger…