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  "name": "Jones v. State",
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        "text": "Per Curiam.\nMrs. Elmer Jones prosecutes this appeal to rev\u00e9rse the judgment of conviction of voluntary manslaughter in which the jury fixed her punishment at two years in the State penitentiary. According to the evidence adduced by the State, in May, 1929, a difficulty occurred between the husband of the defendant and Bud Maynard in Baxter Oounty, Arkansas. Maynard and her husband agreed to fight, fist and skull, and her husband threw his knife on the ground. Mrs. Jones was on a mule and got off of it and struck Maynard two licks in the back with her husband\u2019s knife which she had picked up from the ground. Maynard died about a week and a half or two weeks after the fight. Maynard and Jones did not seem to be hurting each other at the time Mrs. Jones stabbed Maynard. According to the evidence of physicians, they found a stab wound apparently from a knife blade between the sixth and seventh rib on the right of Maynard\u2019s back. This caused traumatic pneumonia and Maynard died as a result of the knife wound.\nAccording to the testimony of Mrs. Jones, she picked up her husband\u2019s knife and during the fight between tier husband and Maynard, the latter staggered back against her and ran against the knife and was stabbed accidentally.\nThe evidence for the State fully warranted the verdict. Storms v. State, 179 Ark. 1158, 16 S. W. (2d) 468.\nThe next assignment of error is that the judgment should be reversed because special counsel for the State, in his closing argument to the jury, stated that the defendant \u201cmight thank her lucky stars that she had some henchman on the grand jury which caused an indictment only for manslaughter to be returned against her.\u201d The circuit court at once admonished counsel that he should not have made any such statement to the jury and told the jury that it was instructed to disregard the statement and to base its verdict upon the testimony introduced and the law given by the court.\nThe case was tried upon competent evidence and upon instructions which fairly and fully guarded the interests of the defendant. The judgment is correct, and it is therefore affirmed.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Hal L. Norwood, Attorney General, and Robert F. Smith, Assistant, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Jones v. State.\nOpinion delivered July 14, 1930.\nHal L. Norwood, Attorney General, and Robert F. Smith, Assistant, for appellee."
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