Welch v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at twenty-five years in the penitentiary.

According to the State’s testimony, Russell Wlard had qualified as guardian of his brothers and sisters and gone to the house of appellant after two of the children and there met his death. It seems that the father of deceased died' in May; that two of his sisters were staying at the house of appellant; that appellant, prior to the death of the father, had talked to the person he killed, and had told him (he) defendant would qualify as…