Sierra v. State

FERGUSON, Judge.

Testimony that appellant had stated several days before killing his wife that,

I’m an assassin, and I would kill anyone and I would do this when I go back to Cuba,

and on another occasion, three days before the stabbing, was heard to say,

Yes, you wait and see in the newspapers you’re going to hear that I killed my wife and I killed myself,

was relevant and admissible declarations tending to establish premeditation, an essential element to first-degree murder as charged. Statements of an accused expressing an intent to kill, followed not too remotely by the act of killing, may be…