Baker v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

— The offense is murder; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for thirty years.

Appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. Appellant was the wife of deceased. Omitting the formal parts, appellant’s confession reads as follows :

“My name is Clyde Baker. I am 20 years old. I am the wife of Charlie Baker. On last Saturday May 21, 1927, I brought a small bottle of strychnine poison at B. Yates Drug Co. on the west side of the square. I paid 35 cts. for the bottle of poison. I told the man in the drug store I wanted it to kill rats with. I also bought some pills…