Tennessee Supreme Court June 8, 1956 (Barksdale v. State)

Mb. Justice Tomlinson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In 1951 the home (probably a one or two room cabin) of Berdie Lee Barksdale was destroyed by fire. Her two children, three years and fourteen months of age, respectively, were burned to death in that fire. As a result, she was indicted in 1955, and convicted of murder in the first degree with a sentence of life imprisonment.