Wenck v. State

*52WOODLEY, Judge.

The conviction is for murder, the jury having assessed the punishment at 30 years in the penitentiary.

N. L. Miller, the deceased, was Chief of Police of the city of Hearne.

Accompanied by Officer Knox Tidwell, the deceased went to the home of T. A. Luster near the outskirts of the city of Hearne in answer to a report of a disturbance there.

Shortly after the officers arrived, deceased was killed as a result of a shotgun loaded with buckshot being fired through a window of the house.

Soon Sheriff Reeves and others arrived, and shortly thereafter a second shot was fired from the…