SMITH v. STATE

20434.

215 Ga. 51 (1959)

108 S.E.2d 688

SMITH v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided May 8, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aaron L. Buchsbaum, Erwin A. Friedman, for plaintiff in error.

Andrew J. Ryan, Jr., Solicitor-General, Sylvan A. Garfunkel, Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Rubye G. Jackson, Deputy Assistant Attorney-General, contra.


DUCKWORTH, Chief Justice.

Beulah Lee Smith was indicted, tried, and convicted of murder with a recommendation of mercy, in Chatham Superior Court. Thereafter, she filed a motion for new trial, which was subsequently amended, and, after a hearing, denied. The exception is to that judgment. In brief, she killed her son-in-law in her own home in an attack with a knife and pair of scissors after she had entreated him to cease beating her daughter and he attacked her,...

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