Ex Parte Glenny
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, Presiding Judge. —
Relator was charged by complaint with murder. That he shot' and killed his son, a young man about twenty-one years of age, was shown without question.
While in the house occupied by the deceased and his mother, the divorced wife or the relator, he took part in a controversy over the ownership of some community property. Relator left the house and was followed by the deceased who had a pistol in his hand. The relator went to his automobile about fifty feet distant and took therefrom a gun with which he shot the deceased. No witnesses saw the act of the shooting. The…
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