Speights v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The indictment charged appellant with the murder of Sudie Speights (his wife) by mingling strychnine with water and other medicines, with the intent and well knowing that she would take and swallow the same, and that the said Sudie Speights did take and swallow the same and died from the effects thereof on the 4th day of June, 1896. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for life, and he prosecutes this appeal.
The record presents but two questions which require consideration, —the first, the action of the court overruling appellant’s motion for continuance, and refusal to grant him a new trial predicated on that ground; and the second, that the testimony is insufficient to sustain the conviction.
This was appellant’s fourth application for continuance, and was based on the absence of Drs. T. E. Stone and M. R. McAlpin, J.…
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