Lovel v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The judgment condemns appellant to confinement in the penitentiary for a period of twenty-five years for the murder of J. N. Hale.

The evidence is circumstantial. This is a synopsis of it: J. N. Hale was a man about seventy years of age, small in stature, of weight estimated from 125 to 140 pounds. In the month of May preceding his death in September, Hale had traveled in Wilbarger and Wichita Counties, returning to Bosque County about the middle of May. While on this journey, he was seen to have in his possession a considerable sum of money, estimated by the witness at…