Jones v. State

BBOOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first-degree, and his punishment-. fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for life.

The evidence shows that appellant about dusk went to the home of a neighbor, where deceased, Bob Lyles and his wife were stopping; called for deceased, deceased being in the back part of the house. Upon being notified by an inmate of the home who was sitting on the gallery that some one was at the gate and wanted to see him, deceased came to the front steps, and at this juncture was warned by said inmate, whereupon deceased started back in the house, and…