Bailey v. State

Appellant was indicted by the grand jury of Erath County, charged with murder, it being alleged that he committed the offense by mixing and putting arsenic in coffee. When tried he was convicted and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for life.

The State relied on circumstantial evidence. It showed by Ulpin Holt, a druggist at Stephenville, that about a week before the death of J.A. Alexander he sold a nickel's worth of commercial arsenic to a young man, not as tall as the witness. He said he was not able to identify the defendant as the man to whom he sold the arsenic,…