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BENEFIELD v. STATE

6 Div. 291.

100 So.2d 334 (1957)

Williard Spencer BENEFIELD v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied November 19, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Skidmore & Davidson, Tuscaloosa, for appellant.

John Patterson, Atty. Gen., Bernard F. Sykes, and Geo. Young, Asst. Attys. Gen., for the State.

CATES, Judge.

Mrs. Benefield was, on December 10, 1954, indicted by a grand jury of Tuscaloosa County for first degree murder, the true bill charging her with killing her husband with a shotgun. On October 5, 1955 (after observation as to her sanity, Code 1940, T. 15, § 425), she was tried on pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. The verdict was of guilt as to second degree murder and fixed her punishment...

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