Hearns v. State

ALMON, Judge.

Jessie Hearns, Jr., was indicted for murder in the first degree of Inez Cephes. He was found guilty of murder in the second degree and punishment was fixed at thirty years in the penitentiary.

The State’s case was based largely on circumstantial evidence as no eye-witnesses were produced.

The deceased operated a boarding house in which she lived in a ground floor front room directly across the hall from the room which appellant occupied.

State’s witness Willie Roberts lived in a funeral home across the street' from the boarding house operated by the deceased. On the morning of July…