Bullock v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and his punishment assessed at fifteen years in the penitentiary.

The record in this case is very voluminous, consisting of several hundred typewritten pages. No extended statement of the evidence is necessary. Only a brief statement of the issues need be stated.

Mr. English, with his wife and child, lived in a tent and dugout in Pecos County at the time of the killing. His nearest neighbor lived about a mile or two distant. Appellant lived some eight or ten miles from him. It was at the time a sparsely settled…