CLAY, Commissioner.
Appellant was prosecuted on the charge of murder and, upon being found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. She contends she was entitled to a directed verdict, but we reverse on the alternative ground that the instruction under which she was convicted was erroneous.
Early one Sunday morning at a small dance hall near Elizabethtown a young girl (age 13) while dancing, was shot in the head and...
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