State v. Willson

McCALEB, Justice.

C&rinne Willson was indicted and tried for the murder of her husband. She was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to serve four years in the penitentiary. Her appeal embraces nine bills of exception.

The first bill was taken to the overruling of a motion to quash the indictment. This motion is founded on the theory that, since the indictment is not drawn in the short form authorized by Article 235 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and charges that the defendant “did feloniously, wilfully,_ unlawfully and of her malice aforethought did kill and murder * * * ”, it does not…