Court Opinion

ID: 3983975
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 10:40:22.535786+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:16.227952
License: Public Domain

Conviction for murder; punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for fifteen years.
The opinion upon former appeal will be found reported in112 Tex. Crim. 254, 16 S.W.2d 248.
There are no bills of exception in the record, and the only question here presented is whether the evidence is sufficient. Appellant was charged with poisoning her husband. Her confession was in evidence, in which she admitted that she bought strychnine, put it in a package and addressed it to her husband, in which she also put a letter purporting to have been written by her husband's mother telling him that she had heard he was sick and was sending him some medicine, and for him to take it. The confession further set out that the woman placed this package so addressed to her husband, in the mail. It was further stated therein that appellant was asleep at the time her husband received this package through the mail, but he told her that he had taken some of the contents, and that it was bitter and made the water bitter, and that he had let their baby taste of the stopper and medicine. In the confession it is further stated that a few minutes after this conversation deceased died in convulsions. By other witnesses the State proved the sale of the strychnine to appellant; that a package came to deceased through the mail and was handed to him by the party in whose servant house he and *Page 370 
appellant were living at the time. Shortly after deceased was found in convulsions in his yard and died in a few minutes. A bottle of strychnine identified by the druggist who sold it to appellant was found in the servant house. The opened package received through the mail was also found therein, as was the letter purporting to have been written by the mother of deceased to him advising him to take the medicine. The doctors who examined deceased shortly after his death testified that convulsions was one of the symptoms of strychnine poisoning, and one of them, Dr. Metz, testifying upon a hypothetical case, apparently setting forth facts relating to the condition of deceased, — stated that upon such facts he would be of opinion that the death of deceased was caused by poisoning. There is not the slightest suggestion in the record that deceased was then or had ever been afflicted with any kind of disease or ailment which might have caused him to have convulsions. The facts stated in the record point conclusively to appellant as the guilty party. We think the evidence sufficient.
The judgment will be affirmed.
Affirmed.
Hawkins, J., absent.
                    ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.