Edwards v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for murder with punishment assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

There is only one bill of exception in the record and wo confine our discussion to the point raised by it. It relates to a ertieism of the court’s charge. In the first paragraph thereof the court defines murder; in the second, gives the distinguishing features of that crime; in the third sets out the punishment for murder; in the fourth states that no conviction for murder can be had unless the party charged therewith was actuated by malice aforethought; in the fifth defines malice…