Steadham v. State

Conviction for murder; punishment, ninety-nine years in the penitentiary.

That appellant killed his wife is admitted. He said he cut her with a knife. In addition to the stab wounds, the facts showed that her skull was crushed by a blow in the back of the head which caused her eyes to protrude. A bloody axe was near her body. No facts support any theory of justifiable homicide:

Appellant seems to rely on a supposed right to kill his wife if she was taken in adultery or under circumstances reasonably justifying the belief that she had committed adultery, or. was about to commit same. Such is not…