Brown v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

This conviction was for murder in the first degree, with life imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The State relies upon facts showing, with more or less cogency, that appellant shot and killed his wife. They lived in Panola County, and had gone to the city of Marshall, in Harrison County, accompanied by a girl named Viola Thomas. Appellant took a bale of cotton which he marketed in Marshall, with the proceeds of which he and his wife made quite a lot of purchases. They gave Viola Thomas some money also with which she made purchases. On their return trip, while yet in…