A Florence attorney died Saturday after collapsing in court during the closing arguments of a murder trial.

The Florence-Times Daily reports Jean Darby, 64, died at Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital. She collapsed during the murder trial of Alfonso Jarmon in Florence.

Witnesses said Darby was in the middle of her closing arguments Thursday when she seemed to stumble, then caught herself on the jury box before collapsing.

Law enforcement officers in the courtroom rushed in to try to revive her. After the jurors had been taken to the jury room, one juror, a registered nurse, came back out to begin CPR on Darby.

The jury on Friday found Jarmon guilty after about 30 minutes of deliberation in the April 26, 2016 shooting death of 77-year-old Charles Hugh Perkins in Florence. During the trial, three eyewitnesses testified to seeing Jarmon shoot Perkins in the head.

Darby was recalled by colleagues as a lover of animals and a reliable defender of her clients.

"She worked extraordinarily hard to be sure anybody she represented had all the rights the law allows," the newspaper quoted former prosecutor and Judge Mike Jones.