Hudgens v. State

'Plaintiffs in error, husband and wife, referred to herein as defendants, were convicted of voluntary manslaughter, the maximum punishment of Annie Mae being fixed at eight years and that of Wilbur at four years in the penitentiary.

Somewhere around nine o’clock on Sunday night, February 14, 1932, Annie Mae, at her home on Edgefield Street in McMinnville, fired one shot from a shotgun into the body of George Elam, from the effects of which he died the next morning. Wilbur was convicted as an aider and abettor. Annie Mae contends that she shot in self-defense. The parties to this tragedy, as…