PANAMA CITY — A Springfield woman who fatally stabbed her neighbor 47 times after being confronted with stealing and forging her checks has withdrawn an appeal for a new trial.
Police said 49-year-old Barbara Grinslade was brutally stabbed 47 times in 2011 after she confronted Nicole Sheree Cobb, 43, over the missing checks. Several competency evaluations postponed Cobb’s trial until she pleaded no contest in April of last year and was sentenced to 27 years in prison for second-degree murder.
Cobb appealed her own decision to not go to trial, and more than a year later, it came before the court. But Cobb immediately withdrew her appeal, saying she couldn’t read or write at the time and did not understand the appeal at the time.
“I am satisfied with my defense and my sentence and I apologize to the court and the family,” she said at Friday’s hearing. “I did not want to drag this back out and upset them.”
Springfield police found Grinslade’s body on the floor of her locked apartment in August 2011. The two were neighbors. Investigators said she found Cobb had stolen at least a dozen checks from her and confronted Cobb over the issue. That’s when Cobb stabbed her 47 times.
“I was high on bath salts at the time,” she told the court Friday.
Cobb continued to use the checks after Grinslade’s death. More than a week after finding the body, Cobb walked into Bay County Sheriff’s Office for an interview and was arrested after confessing to the murder.