Burrier v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

— Offense, murder; penalty, five years in the penitentiary.

The deceased, J. V. McDaniel, operated a filling station on the Wichita Falls and Archer City highway in Archer County. In an attempted robbery of his place of business he was shot to death on May 5, 1927. Appellant was identified as the man who did the shooting.

The case presents some rather unusual aspects. Appellant was a farmer living near the town of Loraine in Mitchell County, Texas. He is shown to have a wife and several children and to have borne a good reputation in the communities in which he had lived during…