Rainer v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at death.

1. The most serious question in the case, and the only one presented, in appellant’s brief, and which is very ably presented, is the one as to whether certain statements made by defendant after his arrest are res gestae. It appears that appellant and his wife had separated on several occasions. At the last separation, when she went to her brother’s, she. carried a cow, some meat and perhaps other things. Appellant had gone and gotten these things and carried them back home. He says…