Dansby v. State

Krueger, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of murder with malice aforethought and her punishment was assessed at confinement in the State Penitentiary for life.

By bill of exception number one, appellant complains of the action of the trial court in declining to sustain her motion for an instruction to the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. She contends that she was entitled to such an instruction upon three grounds: (1) Because the evidence fails to show that she mingled or caused to be mingled strychnine with lemonade as charged in the first count of the indictment; (2)…