Jones v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, murder; penalty, three years in the penitentiary.

Deceased was the son-in-law of appellant, having married his daughter some three or four years prior' to the homicide. Deceased was a cripple, apparently being paralyzed from the hips down and being forced to go on crutches. Appellant’s daughter was sixteen when she married deceased, who was at that time thirty-two, and there was opposition to the marriage. Some ill feeling developed after the marriage due to the alleged mistreatment by deceased of his wife. Deceased ran a small country store. The evidence for the State…