Taylor v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is Murder with Malice; the punishment, assessed by the jury, 99 years in the Texas Department of Corrections.

Appellant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence, and we do not deem necessary a complete recitation of the facts reflected by this 3,800 page record. The following summary will suffice.

Appellant, a 65 year-old bachelor rancher, was charged with the murder of Lucia Ca-brerra Davila Etter, age 38. The record shows that appellant’s father on his death bed had extracted a promise from appellant that he would never marry and would always care for…