Washington v. State

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, fifty years.

This is a companion cause to Fuller v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 397 S.W.2d 434, dated January 5, 1966.

It is undisputed that the deceased was killed when he was shot with a shotgun about 2 A.M., Saturday, August 30th.

The testimony of the state reveals that on August 29, Jean Carter, age 17, lived with her mother and grandfather; that she had known the appellant, age 18, three or four years, and had previously dated him without the knowledge of her mother who had forbidden it; that she had known the deceased about three…