JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Eboni White, who was convicted of manslaughter in the 2009 death of a former friend and Alcorn State University classmate.
White was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in 2010 in the shooting death of 22-year-old Danielle Newsom. White was charged with murder, but the Claiborne County jury convicted her of the lesser crime.
The state Court of Appeals upheld her conviction last fall. The Supreme Court said Thursday it would hear White's appeal.
White appealed, saying in part, that the trial judge had improperly blocked questions about self-defense and hadn't instructed the jury on those claims.
The Appeals Court ruled the evidence didn't support White's claims of self-defense. The court said Newsom also was unarmed.
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