Rollins v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for murder, punishment having been assessed at death.

Appellant was charged with having killed David R. Reed by shooting him with a gun. On the 19th day of October, 1931, deceased, his wife and daughter, had been picking cotton for a neighbor, Mr. Myatt, who lived about two and a half miles from deceased’s home. About sundown, when the Reeds were ready to return home, he could not get his car started, and Mr. Myatt took deceased and his family home in his (Myatt’s) car. As he drove up to the residence of deceased, appellant was seen to be running away from the…