Edge v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant, the wife of the deceased, was convictéd of the offense of murder by poisoning, and sentenced to serve five years in the State penitentiary.

The deceased, Dr. C. L. Edge, was a practicing physician in the town of Crosbyton, Texas, and was evidently addicted to the use of alcoholic liquors and narcotics. He seemed to use the drug paregoric possibly as a beverage. The domestic relations between himself and wife were not pleasant, and the friction between them as well as a motive for the crime is shown by threats upon her part relative to his life. According to a…