Davis v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, life.

The deceased, Fred Bourghs, lived in a three-room house in the northern part of Sabine County, his nearest neighbor’s home being about a mile away. Mr. Bourghs was about 80 years old.

On August 25, 1954, the bloody and battered body of Mr. Bourghs was found in his home, and the medical testimony was that he had been dead for some eig-hteen hours.

The evidence shows beyond question that multiple blows inflicted with some character of blunt instrument had crushed the head of Mr. Bourghs and caused his death.

That the deceased was murdered…