McClendon v. State

GARDNER, Chief Justice.

The appeal is from a conviction for murder in the first degree with punishment fixed at imprisonment for life. Defendant’s wife died of arsenic poison from eating “pancakes” cooked by defendant and given to her about 11:30 o’clock in the morning of February 17, 1941. Defendant testifies he ate two of the cakes himself and his wife.three; that he knew nothing of any arsenic being in the flour and was himself made very sick. An examination of his urine following his arrest and some twelve or thirteen days after the cakes were eaten disclosed a trace of arsenic. The flour…