RODGERS, Justice.
Mary Elizabeth Flowers was indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced for the crime of manslaughter in the Circuit Court of Newton County, Mississippi. The indictment was framed under the terms of Section 2226, Mississippi Code 1942 Annotated (1956), for the killing of a human being, without malice, in the heat of passion, by the use of a dangerous weapon, without authority of law and not in necessary self-defense.
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