Matterson v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is murder. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of thirty-five years.

*251It appears, from the record that on the 12th day of November, 1940, the deceased, Rufus Watkins, and his brother-in-law, Grady Birdwell, were engaged in hauling wood on a truck from a mountain located about two miles north from the town of Cushing to the home of Major Creel, who resided in said town. They had made three trips that morning and were going back in the afternoon. When they left town, one, Jim Fuller, a kinsman by marriage to the deceased who also…