Garrard v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for murder, punishment being eight years in the penitentiary.

Appellant was in the lumber business in Dallas, Texas. J. E. Stewart was a carpenter who had worked for appellant and had gone with him on the morning of the homicide to look at some “jobs” with a view of figuring on same. Paul Stewart (deceased) was a son of J. E. Stewart. The latter was an eyewitness to the killing. According to his testimony he was sit ting on the steps to the warehouse figuring on the “jobs” which they had looked at earlier in the morning when deceased came into the yard and began a…