Pearce v. State

GARDNER, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree, with punishment fixed at twenty-five years’ imprisonment. Deceased was his wife, and the indictment charged defendant with having caused her death by administering strychnine poison, which was found in some quantity in her stomach when the body was- later exhumed.

That the testimony was sufficient for submission to the jury that defendant so administered the strychnine and in sufficient quantity to produce death, we think so clearly appears as to need no discussion. There was no error in the refusal of the affirmative…