Fields v. State

OPINION

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for murder; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The state, in presenting its case against appellant, called six witnesses.

Sgt. Gene Carpenter, of the Slaton police department, testified that on the morning of October 31, 1966, in response to a call, he and a fellow officer went to an area in the city called “the flats,” around 7:55 a.m., where they found the deceased’s dead body lying near a car parked on Edwards Street.

It was shown by the testimony of Dr. John P. Ray, Jr., that the cause of death was a gunshot wound through the heart.

Rose Nell Busby…