JACKSON (AP) — A woman convicted of killing a former friend in the trailer park where they both lived was sentenced to a maximum 20 years in prison for manslaughter.

Defense attorney Jim Kelly of Brandon said he will appeal 22-year-old Eboni White’s sentence for the Nov. 12 death of Danielle Newsom, who was also 22.

“The sentencing was within the bounds of the law, but we believe it was too severe considering the circumstances and lack of criminal history,” Kelly said Friday.

White was charged with murder, but jurors convicted her of the lesser offense.

She testified that she and Newsom’s close friendship turned sour about three weeks before the slaying. She says Newsom accused her of going around a stopped school bus and nearly running over Newsom’s 3-year-old son.

White testified she went around a stopped school bus that did not have a stop sign out, and she did not see a child.

She said Newsom was hostile toward her after that.

On the morning of the shooting, Newsom banged on White’s door and threatened her, White testified.

She said she shot Newsom five times because she was afraid. The mobile home park is a few miles from Alcorn’s Lorman campus, where both were students.

“Based upon the facts and circumstances, the sentence was reasonable,” Claiborne County District Attorney Alexander Martin said Friday.

The case was tragic, he said. “You have two lives destroyed.”