OPINION
Aрpellant, Minerva Garrett, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged in the District Court, Seminole County, Case No. CRF — 77-31, with the crime of Murder in the First Degree in violаtion of
The State’s evidence showed that on December 31, 1976, about 9:00 p. m. the defendant announced her intention to her foster grandson that she was “going down there to kill Willett,” her foster daughter. Her grandson did not take her seriously, although he said “she looked wild.” The defendant walked from her house to the home of Missie Carpitcher, about four houses away, where Willett was. Upon the defendant’s entering the house, an argument ensued and the defendant pulled a pistol from her purse. Defendant fired the pistol and Willett Garret was wounded. Aleck Carpitcher, the 20-year-old son of Missie Carpitcher, came forward from his back bedroom, and the defendant shot him, whereupon he lost consciousness. Hobbie Carpitcher, 23-year-old son of Missie Car-pitcher, also came forward from a back bedroom and saw that Aleck and Willett were shot. He then heard the defendant say to his mother, “I been wаntin’ you a *755 long time.” The defendant shot Missie from a distance of about two feet. The defendant then turned and told Hobbie, “if you want some of this, I’ll give you some of it.” The defеndant then pulled the trigger but the gun jammed. Missie shoved the defendant out the door where the gun fell free, and the defendant left.
Later that evening, Missie was driven to the Vallеy View Hospital at Ada, Oklahoma. After the police arrived on the scene, the gun was discovered in a ditch about 50 feet from the house. Robert Harjo, brother of Missie Carpitcher, gave the gun to Officer Ablah, of the Konawa Police Department. The pistol was a .32 caliber semiautomatic Colt. Missie Carpitchеr told Officer Ablah that the defendant had shot her. Officer Ablah placed the defendant under arrest and read her the Miranda rights. He stated that the defendant said, “I tried to kill them. I hope they die.” The police also discovered four spent shell casings and two .32 caliber bullets in Missie’s house. The pistol and slugs were sent to the OSBI laborаtory.
Tom Jordan, firearms and tool mark examiner with the OSBI, ran a ballistics test and found that the two slugs came from the .32 caliber Colt.
Dr. Gullett, of the Valley View Hospital at Ada, Oklahoma, testified that he performed emergency surgery on Missie Car-pitcher on the evening of December 31, 1976. He testified that she had been shot in the abdomеn. The bullet punctured the small and large intestines before exiting through her back. Missie appeared to be recovering normally until the day of her death on January 14, 1977, when she began to complain of chest pains. Dr. Gullett stated, that she apparently died of a pulmonary embolus. He testified that a pulmonary embolus is often a postoperative occurrence. In his opinion, but for the bullet entering her body, her death would not have occurred under the circumstances in which death did occur.
The defense called Dr. Milton Vogt who stated that he had treated both the deceased and the defendant for heart problems. He and four оther witnesses also testified to the good character of the defendant.
Willett Garrett, for the defense, testified that she was 15 years of age and had been having sexual intercourse with Aleck Car-pitcher since she was 14. She testified that Aleck’s family, including the deceased, were aware of this relationship. On the evening of December 31, 1976, she was at the deceased’s house watching television and Hob-bie and Aleck Carpitcher were sniffing paint. She stated that when the defendant arrived she looked like “she had gone berserk.” Willett Garrett stated that during the argument the deceased slapped the defendant.
The defendant testified that she was 80 years old and had never had any children of her own, but had raised 12 children. She testified that she became aware that something wrong was happening between Wil-lеtt and Aleck. She had gone twice to the District Attorney of Seminole County, Mr. Powell, to have it stopped but nothing was done. She denied saying she was going to kill Willett. The defеndant identified the pistol as belonging to her and that she always carried it in her purse. She remembered walking to the deceased’s house on the evening of December 31, 1976, to get Willett. She also remembered the argument with the deceased and that the deceased struck her. She did not remember shooting anyone.
The defendant’s first assignment of error is that the State failed to prove the defendant’s sanity beyond a reasonable doubt, where the defendant had offered sufficient evidence to raise a reasonable doubt as to her sanity. We have stated that the presumption of sanity prevails until overcome by sufficient evidence tо raise a reasonable doubt of defendant’s sanity, and then the burden is on the State to prove the defendant’s sanity beyond a reasonable doubt.
Whisenhunt v. State,
In her second assignment of error, the defendant asserts that the homicide of Mis-sie Carpitcher was justifiable and that the defendant was trying to prevent the continued statutory rape of her 14-year-old foster daughter. The defendant relies principally on the case of
Litchfield v. State,
In the present case, the trial court instructed the jury on justifiable homicide, and the evidence presented to them was sufficient to support their finding. The evidence shows that when the defendant entered the deceased’s home that evening her foster daughter, Willett, was not in imminent danger from any member of the household. The defendant had been aware of the relationship between her foster daughter and Aleck Carpitcher prior to this incident. The evidence doеs not show that the circumstances then confronting the defendant justified her shooting four people. The defendant cannot be justified in taking the law into her own hands tо stop the ongoing relationship between her foster daughter and Aleck Carpitcher. As we said in
Haines v. State,
Okl.Cr.,
Because of the defendant’s age and physical condition, we would direct the defense attorney’s attention to 22 O.S.1971, § 994.
For the foregoing reasons the judgment and sentence is AFFIRMED.