Cassell v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is murder. The punishment .assessed is death.

Appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain his conviction.

The evidence adduced by the state, briefly stated, shows that appellant and Eddie Hamilton killed Lester Linwood Wilson with a piece of iron pipe while burglarizing the “Sportsmen’s Center,” a store owned and operated by one James M. Brooks. It appears from the record that appellant and his companion entered the back door of a •secondhand furniture repair shop where •the deceased was employed and where he slept at night. After they had entered…