Bass v. State

Appellant was indicted for the killing of his wife by shooting her with a pistol, and was convicted of murder in the first degree, with the infliction of the death penalty.

He interposed pleas of not guilty, and not guilty by reason of insanity. While there was an eyewitness to the shooting, yet the witness did not identify the defendant, and the state’s case connecting defendant with the commission of the crime rested upon circumstantial evidence and incriminatory statements made by defendant, all of which were so cogent and convincing as to fully justify the conclusion of the jury that the…