State v. Bussey

The defendant, appellant, was prosecuted for murder, convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term not less than 10 nor more than 15 years. The accusation, specifically, was that she had willfully poisoned her child, Verdia Bussey, a girl 5 years of age. The child died under suspicious circumstances, and her death was attributed to mercuric chloride poisoning.

The only question that was argued, either orally or in the printed briefs, is whether the testimony of two nurses, namely, Mrs. Gremillion and Miss Trice, who, as witnesses for the state, related…