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A jury of Newcastle law students has partially acquitted a woman who was convicted of murder almost 150 years ago in the death of her abusive husband's drinking buddy.

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Elizabeth McGree was accused alongside her husband and teenage daughter, later acquitted, of bludgeoning and stabbing Christian Renderup after he attacked and sexually assaulted her in a drunken rage on the night of November 11, 1882.

McGree's trial became a landmark case of criminal prosecution. She was believed to be one of the first in Australian legal history to testify in her own defence in a

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