Lee v. State

The offense is murder. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of five years.

The State's evidence shows that appellant and deceased had been in the habit of going to Dallas and while there engaged in gambling; that on one occasion shortly before the killing, they had gone to Dallas and engaged in a game in which appellant lost all his money; that when deceased returned home, appellant's wife inquired of him where her husband was. He told her that he had left him in Dallas; that appellant had lost his money and had borrowed $25.00 from him. When appellant…