Long v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

— In the present case, the accused was charged with administering poison to her husband. She testified and denied her guilt. There were some forty witnesses heard upon the trial. The typewritten report of the evidence covers some 280 pages. The evidence was wholly circumstantial. One of the most important circumstances upon which the state relied were certain words written in a book at the time some poison was sold by a druggist. Appellant denied the writing. She introduced witnesses who declared that it was not the handwriting of the accused.…