Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-14 | Page 14 | Slayer of Husband Gets Life Sentence

SLAYER OF HUSBAND GETS LIFE SENTENCE Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbeo Pound Guilty by Jury and Recommended Recom-mended for Mercy. MULLEN. Ga., Sept. 13. Mrs. Edna Perkins Codbcc today was found guilty of the murder of Mrs. Florence God-bee, God-bee, wife of her divorced husband. The .juo' recommended mercy. Mrs. God-boo God-boo shot and killed her former husband hus-band and his, wife in -the Milieu post-oflico post-oflico a fow weeks ago. Two minutes after the jury returned its verdict Judge Hammond sentenced Mrs. Godbee to roinain in the penitentiary peni-tentiary "the rest of her natural life." Mrs. Godbeo claimed as a defense that sho had long bcou mistreated by her husband before and since his divorce di-vorce and that he applied a vile name to her on tho fatal morning. Her do feuso for killing tho judge's wife was that after sho began shooting she was so excited sho did not know what she did. The dead woman was from Wil-liamsport. Wil-liamsport. Pa. The defense is expected to appeal.