Willis

The appellant was charged by indictment with having murdered one Dr. Beecher B. Baldwin on or about the eleventh day of April, 1924. She admitted having killed him, but her defense was that he attacked her in her apartment while he was intoxicated, and that she shot him in defense of her person and her honor. A verdict was returned by the jury finding her guilty of murder in the first degree, with a recommendation of imprisonment for life, and she appeals from the judgment and order denying her motion for new trial.

Many grounds for reversal are assigned in appellant’s briefs, which consist of the assertion of errors in rulings upon the admissibility of evidence, in instructing the jury, and alleged misconduct of the jury.

A considerable portion of appellant’s argument is devoted to alleged errors in the admission of contradictory statements testified by various witnesses to have been made by the defendant, and to the plausibility or weight of conflicting testimony, all of which were clearly admissible, and merely presented questions of fact for the final consideration of the jury. Its determination. of these questions is conclusive. The defendant did not testify, and the…