Green v. State

1. Where a woman was found dead in a public road, and the evidence indicated death from poisoning with carbolic acid, and it was a question whether the case was one of murder or suicide, when it was shown that her body had been removed to the road from a point in the woods some forty or fifty yards distant, and that at such point the leaves were trampled and there were evidences of a struggle, and that the accused, who was her husband but living separately from her, when seen had about him the odor of that poison, it was admissible to show also that the deceased had a bruised place on her…