Outlaw v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Mrs. Frank McCall by beating, bruising and wounding her with a hammer.

Living with deceased and her husband was their young daughter and the mother of deceased, who was approximately eighty years of age. Appellants’ home was nearby. The relations between appellant and the family of deceased had apparently been friendly, they having been neighbors for some time. Shortly prior to the homicide deceased had sold a bale of cotton and had…