Ashford v. State

The evidence.for the State tended to show, that the defendant had with a plow-line or rope so severely whipped his child (whose age was estimated by witness to be from 6 to 11 years) as to cause her death, and had also severely beaten a younger child of his, and had run away; that when arrested he represented that the child died from eating glass, which claim was contradicted by evidence of physicians that ■no glass was found in her stomach; and that the skin had been whipped from parts of the body and head of the dead child, portions of her flesh were beaten into a “jelly,” and there was a…