On August 6, 1984, appellant Cynthia Hill entered the bedroom where her common-law husband Cleve Smith was sleeping and shot him three times in the head with a .22 caliber pistol, killing him. The appellant pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity, contending that, at the time of the murder, she was suffering from "battered spouse syndrome." A Jefferson County jury subsequently found her guilty...
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