Washington v. State

On the 19th day of January of this year the body of Mittie Washington was found in Buffalo Bayou in the City of Houston in an advanced state of decomposition, clad only in an undershirt. A short time after this appellant was indicted for the murder of the said Mittie Washington, who was his wife. The parties had for some years been married, and until a short time before the death of the wife had lived in Colorado County. From the evidence they seemed not to have gotten along very well, and there was some proof that the deceased had carried on illicit relations with other men, particularly…