Jones v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

— The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for life.

Appellant made a confession in which she admitted that she killed her baby immediately after it was born, and buried it in her yard. Omitting the formal parts, the confession reads as follows:

“Thursday night, October 31st, 1935, I gave birth to a baby boy at the home of my grandmother, Dina Summers, in the town of Woodville, Tyler County, Texas. After it was born I immediately took it out thru the kitchen into the back yard; I *217carried it out by holding it by the neck and when I got out there I…