Reese v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant received the penalty of death by the verdict of a jury for the murder of Lizzie Reinhart, and he appeals.

The facts reveal that appellant, a mature man, had been married, and his wife had been committed to a hospital for the insane, and at the time of this alleged tragedy he was then and had been for a few years living with the deceased as man and wife. They were looked upon as such by some of their neighbors. The deceased had borne appellant one son, twenty-two months old at the time of the woman’s death, and she was again pregnant, and there was taken from her dead…