Crenshaw v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was assessed a penalty of fifty years in the penitentiary upon a charge of murder.

The evidence of the night preceding the tragedy is quite involved. It appears, however, that a number of young people, at least some of whom lived in the city of Austin, were in a car; that some of them were drinking; and that an argument took place involving appellant and the deceased about whether or not they should go to Lockhart and, if they did, who would pay for the gasoline. These matters are not important to the questions raised.

It was the state’s evidence that the parties…