Murphy v. State
Murphy v. State
Opinion of the Court
for the Court.
Frances Murphy was tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Washington County of the murder of her husband and sentenced to life imprisonment.
A review of the evidence, the sufficiency of which to support the conviction is challenged on appeal, reflects that appellant’s husband was shot to death in the marital domicile by the “boyfriend” of appellant’s daughter. The evidence leaves little doubt that the deceased husband had grossly abused and mistreated appellant and her daughter for a long time. There was evidence, including the testimony of the daughter’s boyfriend who actually fired the fatal shots, capable of supporting the theory of the prosecution that appellant, her daughter and he entered into a plot and conspiracy in which it was agreed that he would kill appellant’s husband and that appellant and her daughter would testify in support of a claim on his part that he had fired in necessary self-defense. Appellant assured him, according to his testimony, that she also would post bond for him and provide an attorney for his defense, assur
We have examined and considered the record in the light of each of the several objections now urged upon this Court as requiring reversal and retrial of the case and find these objections to be without merit.
AFFIRMED.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Frances MURPHY v. STATE of Mississippi
- Status
- Published