McGregor v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

Some three weeks after her marriage, the daughter of the appellant gave birth to a child. The doctor, who reached the home soon after the child was born and who after his arrival gave attention to the mother, indicated in his testimony that the child’s birth was after a normal period from the time of conception and that the child was born alive. Several days after the birth of the child the sheriff was told by the appellant that she had buried the child while it was alive. Upon…