Puryear v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at.death, and prosecutes this appeal.

The homicide occurred in the city of Austin, about 2 o’clock on the night of March 3, 1906. Deceased, Minas Long, was a bartender at the Sutor Bar, situated on Congress Avenue, on the block immediately north of the I. & G. N. depot. The Sutor saloon being the second building from the southeast corner of said block. Deceased was attending bar on that night, assisted by the porter, Jim Taylor. About 2 o’clock appellant and his companion, Harvey Carroll (the…