Wilkins v. State

The offense is accomplice to murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for 25 years.

The indictment alleged that Luther Edgar Sumrall was the principal. The State introduced in evidence Sumrall's confession in which he admitted that he placed deceased, who was the husband of appellant, upon a railroad track where he was killed by a train. Appellant's confession was to the effect that she promised to pay Sumrall part of the proceeds of an insurance policy on the life of deceased to induce him to commit the homicide. Some of the witnesses for the State testified that some time…