Long v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— Conviction for murder; punishment, twenty-five years in the penitentiary.

In this case it was the state’s theory, based on circumstantial evidence, that appellant poisoned her husband by giving him strychnine. Deceased habitually used Sal Hepática. He took a dose of this powdered medicine, became violently ill, and shortly died in convulsions. The bottle of Sal Hepática from which the dose was taken,' upon analysis, was found to contain strychnine, likewise the stomach of deceased. Deceased and appellant lived at Kingsville, Kleberg county, Texas. A clerk in a drug store at…