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Hudson v. State

The defendant fatally stabbed her husband with a butcher knife.

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Following a jury trial, Janice Delores Hudson was found guilty of murder, felony murder, and possession of a knife during the commission of a crime.1 On appeal, Hudson contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict, that the trial court erred in denying her motion for a continuance, that the trial court erred in refusing to allow a defense witness to testify, that the trial court erred by charging the jury on both accident and self-defense, and that she received ineffective assistance of counsel. We affirm. 1.Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence reveals that on September 23, 2002, Hudson stabbed her husband in the chest with a butcher knife after her husband accused her of having an affair. Hudson called 911, and when a police officer arrived at the scene, Hudson admitted to the officer that she had stabbed her husband. She claimed, however, that she did not mean for the knife to go so far into her husband’s body and that the stabbing had occurred by accident. Despite this contention, Hudson later admitted at trial that she tried to force her husband back with the knife when she felt the knife penetrate his body. Hudson’s husband was not breathing and showed no signs of life when the paramedics arrived at the scene, and he was pronounced dead approximately one hour after the stabbing had taken place.

The evidence was sufficient to enable a rational trier of fact to find that, despite her claims of self-defense and accident, Hudson was guilty of all of the crimes for which she was convicted beyond a reasonable doubt. Jackson v. Virginia , 443 U. S. 307 99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560 1979; see also Davis v. State , 269 Ga. 276 1 496 SE2d 699 1998 evidence sufficient to sustain felony murder conviction where defendant claimed she did not recall seeing the victim stabbed, but admitted that she must have stabbed him when she turned from the counter where she had been cutting onions.

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