McGee v. State

238 S.W.2d 707 (1950)

McGEE

v.

STATE.

No. 24701.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 13, 1950.

Rehearing Denied April 18, 1951.

Burks & McNeil, Lubbock, Simpson, Clayton & Fullingim, E. A. Simpson, Amarillo, for appellant.

Lloyd Croslin, Dist. Atty., E. G. Pharr, Asst. Dist. Atty., George Dupree, Sp. Prosecutor, all of Lubbock, George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.

DAVIDSON, Commissioner.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

In March, 1948, Betty Jane Allston, the daughter of R. L. Allston, deceased, met appellant while each was a student in Denton, Texas. Within…