Taylor v. State

HARPER, Judge.

—Appellant was prosecuted and convicted of murder, and his punishment assessed at twenty years confinement in the State penitentiary.

Appellant was convicted of killing Ova Nugent. Alfred Nugent was a material witness for the State and had testified to recognizing the voice of appellant when they first rode np to his house that night; that after two shots had been fired, he went out of the house and saw and recognized appellant, who then shot at him. The theory of the State was that appellant went to Nugent’s house that night to kill the father, Alfred Nugent, and the shot was…