Trapper v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of murder, and his punishment was assessed at death.

The record shows that on the night of February 27, 1935, the appellant cut his wife’s throat with a razor and also shot her with a shotgun, from the effects of which she died in a very short time. He then left the scene of the homicide and hid in the brush near the railroad track until the following night. The next day the officers obtained a warrant for his arrest and began looking for him but could not find him. At about 8 P. M. they were notified that a negro answering…