Adams v. State

255 S.W.2d 513 (1953)

ADAMS

v.

STATE.

No. 26191.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 28, 1953.

Rehearing Denied March 4, 1953.

A. L. Bevil, Kountze, W. J. Baldwin, Beaumont, for appellant.

George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

WOODLEY, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder and the jury assessed his punishment at 15 years in the penitentiary.

A difficulty occurred between appellant's companion Percy Green and the deceased, Junior Hadnot, at a tavern in Silsbee. Hadnot was shot through the neck with a forty-four caliber pistol as he was leaving the tavern, the shot being…