Rylee v. State

Graves, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of murder with malice, and awarded a penalty of twenty-three years in the penitentiary.

The trial was vigorously contested, and we find thirty-three bills of exception in the record. The most important ones we will attempt to notice.

It seems that appellant and his wife, Helen, kept a store of some kind in the town of Granbury in Hood County, at which place the tragedy occurred, the venue of this cause having been transferred from such county to Erath County. On August 27, 1934,'the deceased T. C. Mitchell, in company with his cousin Dalton-Mitchell,…