Dodd v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appellant was given a penitentiary sentence of ten years for the murder of her husband, Richard Dodd, by stabbing him with an ice pick, on the 30th day of September, 1944.

We find but one bill of exception in the record. This complains of the insufficiency of the evidence and brings the contention that there is not sufficient proof that the instrument used was in ice pick, as alleged in the indictment.

The killing took place at what was referred to as a honkytonk in the edge of the town of Jefferson, on the highway leading toward Louisiana. The deceased had gone to the…