Mikeska v. State

Appellant was convicted of the murder of his wife and the death penalty assessed.

The proof would show that deceased being dissatisfied with the home appellant carried her to, a place near Crosby, in Harris County, said she was going to return to her father's, in Waller County. Appellant in his confession says that the kinsfolk of deceased, before this, had been trying to get his wife away from him, and when, on this morning, she said she was not satisfied with the home he had provided, and that she was going back from where she came, he thought she meant it and he could not control himself,…