Bowen v. Smith

The appellant, Mrs. Josie Bowen, was indicted and convicted of the murder of Melvin McFerrin, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

There were no eyewitnesses to the killing, and the proof of the state, at its strongest, showed that the deceased, McFerrin, was killed at the home of the appellant within a short time after a witness for the state had seen McFerrin approaching the home of the appellant, and that he turned at the rear thereof and disappeared from view. The road ran to the rear of the appellant’s home and within two or three feet of the back door of her-house.

The deceased, Melvin…