Cooper v. State

Clarke, Presiding Justice.

Appellant and his girl friend, the victim, became involved in a quarrel. She took a shotgun from behind the bedroom door. They struggled for the gun in the house and into the yard. Appellant wrestled the gun from her, and as she attempted to run, he shot her in the back with the shotgun at a distance of about six to eighteen feet. The victim ran to a neighbor’s house and collapsed. An unidentified male called the police and told them that he had killed his girl friend. Appellant ran to the neighbor’s house. The neighbor let neither the victim nor the appellant into…