Monroe v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Harris. Tried below before the Hon. Peter W. Gray. This was an indictment against the appellant, charging her, in four several counts, with the murder of Mary Abigail Heady, on the 11th of August, 1858. The first count charged the murder to have been committed, by administering a poison, called cobalt; the second, by strangling with a cloth, tied around the neck of the deceased; the third, by throttling the deceased, and choking her to death; and the fourth, by…
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Appeal from Harris. Tried below before the Hon. Peter W. Gray. This was an indictment against the appellant, charging her, in four several counts, with the murder of Mary Abigail Heady, on the 11th of August, 1858. The first count charged the murder to have been committed, by administering a poison, called cobalt; the second, by strangling with a cloth, tied around the neck of the deceased; the third, by throttling the deceased, and choking her to death; and the fourth, by means unknown to the grand jury. On the trial of the case, at the Fall Term, 1858, George White, one of the regular…
1Opinion of the CourtRoberts, J.
The main ground of error relied on, is in, refusing a new trial, because the verdict was not warranted by the evidence.
The evidence is conflicting in its tendencies, and imposed on the jury the necessity of both determining upon the credibility of the witnesses, and of reconciling the facts, as best they could. The exculpatory testimony was given, mainly, by Coombs and Sweeny; the former, a man hired to work by defendant, and the latter, her son, about fourteen years of age.
Their evidence, intrinsically considered, may be liable to objection. Without entering into an extended discussion of…
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