Coffman v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at twenty years confinement in the penitentiary; and prosecutes this appeal.

This is a case of circumstantial evidence, the theory of the State . being that Ben Coffman, appellant’s son, committed the homicide by lying in wait for deceased Wilson, and that appellant was present at the time aiding and abetting in the homicide. The defendant relied on the weakness of the State’s case, and also introduced evidence of an alibi.

A summary of the facts, on the part of the State, shows that the…