Campbell v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

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

By bill of exception number one, appellant complains of the action of the trial court in declining to instruct the jury to return a verdict of not guilty on the grounds that the evidence was not sufficient to authorize and sustain his conviction.

The testimony adduced by the State, briefly stated, shows that appellant operated a still on the Hitson place, located north of the town of Cisco in Eastland County. The deceased knew of the still’s location and on the morning…