Taylor v. State

RICE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense-of murder in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of twenty years.

Venie Taylor, the wife of appellant, gave birth to a baby; and, as was definitely shown by the testimony, came to her death as the result of “flooding”, that is, she bled to death because of a failure of the womb to. contract, properly, after the birth.

It was the theory of the State that appellant, shown by the undisputed testimony to be a man who had never “been to school,”1 and who could not “read and write”, who was not…