Martin v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The indictment alleged that appellant, with malice aforethought, voluntarily killed Janice Lee Strickland by shooting her with a gun.

The case was submitted to the jury a3 one of circumstantial evidence. The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction is not challenged.

The state’s evidence shows that the deceased and her husband, Linford I. Strickland, left their home in Duncanville, south of Grand Prairie, about 9:30 P.M. on Saturday May 16, 1964. When they failed to return the police were notified.

About noon the next day,…