Warren v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of murder, and his punishment was assessed at death.

It appears from the record that about the 6th day of February, A. D. 1934, the appellant, Bernard LaCoume and Roy Cusack stole an automobile and went from the city of Galves-' ton to Angelina County, where, on the night of February 9, 1934, they robbed and killed Charley Cansler by striking and beating him with a pistol and some blunt instrument, a better description of which was to the grand jurors unknown, and by packing tightly into the mouth of said Charley Cansler a…