Horrell v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for life.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Edward McMillan by shooting him with a pistol.

Deceased had been a barber at Five Points in the city of El Paso for 15 years. His custom was to return home about 10 o’clock on Saturday night. On Saturday night, November 19, 1932, about 9:30 o’clock, the attention of the "wife of deceased was attracted by hearing two shots close to her porch, followed by the sound of two people running, one in one…