Stewart v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment,, life.

Our prior opinion in which we refused to consider the statement of facts is.withdrawn, and the case will now be considered on its merits.

Appellant’s two confessions, which were amply corroborated and the voluntary nature of which was submitted to the jury, recite a sordid story of three professional criminals who started out one night intending to burglarize some house or rob some person and who fell out among themselves. A struggle over a pistol ensued, and the appellant shot the deceased twice, as the result of which he…