Robbins v. State

On November 2, 1911, appellant was indicted for the murder of I.T. Blake, alleged to have been committed in Fort Bend County on June 15, 1911. The venue was properly changed to Galveston County where this trial occurred in July, 1913. The proof showed that appellant killed the deceased by shooting him in the back with a pistol and that in the same transaction he shot his wife which resulted in her death. The jury found him guilty of murder with express malice, — in effect, murder in the first degree, and assessed the death penalty.

It is unnecessary in the disposition we make of the case to…