Smith v. State

Appellant, Catherine M. Smith, was jointly indicted with T.E. Smith (her husband) and Addison Smith (her son) for the murder of I.B. Grubbs, deputy sheriff, on the 6th of August, 1903. Appellant was granted a severance, and upon trial was convicted, her punishment being assessed at twenty-five years in the penitentiary for murder in the second degree.

The evidence adduced is substantially as follows: Appellant and her husband were joint defendants in a civil suit foreclosing a mortgage lien upon their property, in favor of the Union Trust Company. After the mortgage was foreclosed, one Brooker…