Hendrix v. State

Appellant was given a life sentence in the penitentiary for murdering Inez Hendrix, and this appeal is from that judgment.

For the reversal of this judgment it is insisted that incompetent testimony was admitted, including an alleged confession; that the competent testimony is insufficient to sustain the verdict, and that it was error to permit the sheriff to have charge of the jury, inasmuch as he was one of the principal witnesses for the state.

Deceased was the wife of Houston Hendrix, who left his home immediately after eating breakfast on the morning of February 15th to sow oats for a man…