Clayton v. State

HAWKINS, Judge. —

The offense is múrder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for eight years.

Oakley v. The State, 125 Texas Crim. Rep., 258, 68 S. W. (2d) 204, is a companion case.

Deceased was appellant’s three and one-half-year-old daughter. She was a mute and a paralytic. Paul Oakley, Coy Oakley, appellant and his wife had embraced the Apostolic faith. Paul Oakley was obsessed with the idea that he was endowed with the power to relieve the sick and afflicted. Appellant believed that Paul Oakley had this power, and permitted him to attempt the cure of his small daughter. A witness…