Reed v. State

Marshall Reed was convicted of the offense of murder. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and he excepted. There was evidence, though conflicting, together with statement of the accused, from which the jury was authorized to find the following facts: On August 29, 1925, Saturday night, the accused, together with a woman companion, Mrs. Probasco, traveling in a Ford car arrived at a church in Rossville, Walker County. They parked the car on a narrow street, nearly opposite the dwelling and cold-drink stand of T. C. Hearn, who was a deputy sheriff. The accused accompanied his companion to…