Tucker v. State

Bell, Justice.

1. Where a husband and wife disappeared from their home on the same day but at different hours, and several days thereafter their dead bodies were discovered near each other in a section of woods about two and a half miles from their home; and where on the subsequent trial of one indicted for the murder of the wife there was evidence that in a single statement the accused had admitted that on seeing the wife some distance from her home he had killed her with a heavy stick, and that when the husband was looking for her several hours later he had killed the husband with a gun,…