LEVERT v. STATE

6 Div. 810.

42 So.2d 532 (1949)

LEVERT v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied May 26, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. A. Carmichael, Atty. Gen., and Thos. F. Parker, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the petition.

Lipscomb & Brobston, of Bessemer, and D. G. Ewing, of Birmingham, opposed.


FOSTER, Justice.

The appellant in this case was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree for the killing of her husband by stabbing him in the neck with a pocket knife. There seems to have been no eyewitness to the event. The defendant admitted the killing in a confession and as a witness for herself, but claimed self-defense, and her evidence tended to establish that defense.

The State introduced Frank Cornelius as a witness, who testified that a short...

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