Weige v. State

(dissenting). — Appellant was convicted of murder of his wife, and his punishment assessed at fifteen years in the penitentiary.

His only defense was that he was insane at the time he killed her. Appellant was about forty-eight years old when he killed her At the time they had six living children, the youngest about two years old and the oldest perhaps sixteen or eighteen. His wife was with child by him when he killed her. His claim was delusional insanity. In the course of several years before he killed his wife it was shown by his parents and a few of his neighbors that he had some claimed…