Watson v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was assessed a penalty of ten years in the penitentiary by a jury in Ector County, there being a change of venue from Midland County where an indictment was returned charging him with assault to murder with malice.

The accused was the operator of a hotel, dance hall and cafe in the negro section of the city of Midland. On Saturday night, May 16, 1942, his place of business was in operation to a late hour and long past midnight. Some of the other business houses in that section were kept open equally late. The officers had made frequent- trips into the section during…