Leahy v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the penalty, death.

The deceased, Dr. J. A. Ramsey, was a practicing physician in the town of Mathis. On the late afternoon of May 20, 1926, one Roberto Martinez appeared at the residence of deceased and represented to him that his sister-in-law was sick with appendicitis and requested him to go with him to see her. The two departed to gether in compliance with such request shortly before nine o’clock, the deceased going in his Dodge car. This was the last time Dr. Ramsey was seen alive. A day or two later his wife received a post card in his handwriting…