Mitchell v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

Offense, murder; penalty, thirty-five years in the penitentiary.

Appellant was charged with the murder of Pat Murphy. About two days after the disappearance of deceased his body was found in the water of the Pecos River by a searching party and at the time it was weighted down with two rocks and was lying at the bottom of a hole of water described as about waist deep. His head showed to have been hit by some blunt instrument. Without giving in detail the evidence, suffice it to say that cogent circumstances were introduced showing that deceased came to his death at the…