State v. Price

Lively, Judge:

Bertha Price was found' guilty by a jury of murder in the second degree upon Emma Smith, and was sentenced on the 5th day of July, 1923, to fifteen years confinement in the penitentiary; from which sentence she prosecutes this writ of error.

The homicide was committed on June 11, 1923, in front of the house of deceased. The accused left her home at Beck-ley to visit a relative iii the town of Skelton about one mile distant, and passed by the home of Emma Smith. On returning from her visit and while passing by Emma’s home an altercation arose between them which resulted in the…