Carlisle v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The facts of the case will be fully .understood from the testimony of defendant, which is given in full, as follows, viz: Lula Carlisle, defendant, testified:- “My name is .Lula Carlisle. I am 16 years of age. I was 16 years old September 1, 1896. I know Jim Cot-ton and Martha Cotton. They live at Azle, Texas. I gave birth to a male child there on June 18, 1896. The child has no name. This child lived until Tuesday, June 30,. 1896, when it died.
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The facts of the case will be fully .understood from the testimony of defendant, which is given in full, as follows, viz: Lula Carlisle, defendant, testified:- “My name is .Lula Carlisle. I am 16 years of age. I was 16 years old September 1, 1896. I know Jim Cot-ton and Martha Cotton. They live at Azle, Texas. I gave birth to a male child there on June 18, 1896. The child has no name. This child lived until Tuesday, June 30,. 1896, when it died. It died about 2 o’clock p.-m., of-that day. It was a healthy child, but, at first, could not manage the nipple well. . My child was healthy and stout…
1Opinion of the Court
HURT, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and her punishment assessed at a life term in the penitentiary, and she prosecutes this appeal. The indictment charges that she poisoned her infant child, some twelve days old. The evidence shows circumstantially, and also by her positive confession, that she caused the death of her child by administering poison to it. The body of the child was exhumed, and the contents of its stomach analyzed, ard showed to contain four and one-half grains of antimony—enough, according to the evidence of experts, to have killed five…
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