Cooper v. State

Appellant was convicted of murder in the killing of his wife. The homicide occurred on August 10, 1941. The testimony from which the jury were warranted in reaching their verdict discloses that the appellant, early on the date stated, in his own home choked or strangled his wife to death and dragged her body out of the house through a fence and left it in a corn field, after having kicked or stamped upon her head. As a result of the latter abuses, a wound was left in her head and her jaw broken on both sides. There was evidence that the attack upon her was ruthless and accompanied with…