Jones v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

The opinion on a former appeal is reported in 39 S. W., Second Series, at page 76.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Loyd McCollum by shooting him with a pistol.

Appellant was employed as an automobile mechanic in. a garage operated by his father. He had sold an automobile to Jesse Cline and Clarence Cline on the deferred payment plan; At the request of the Cline boys appellant had come to the home of Ab. Cline, their uncle, where…