Vann v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. E. R. Muse. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree; penalty, death. A full statement of the main facts in this case will be found in the companion case of Burrell Oats v. State, reported in this volume.
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, his punishment being assessed at death.
The evidence for the .State, through the testimony of the wife of deceased, shows substantially: that appellant and Burrell Oats (a negro) came into Sol Aronoff’s store, in the city of Dallas about 9 o’clock on the night of November 39th. Deceased, wife and children lived in the back part of the store. The appellant called for a sack of tobacco, Bull Durham. Deceased went to the counter and handed the sack of tobacco, and as soon as he walked out from the counter and walked up to the…
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