Allen v. State

333 S.W.2d 855 (1960)

Jack ALLEN, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 31218.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 24, 1960.

W. S. Leslie, Clifton H. Tupper, San Angelo, for appellant.

Justin A. Kever, Dist. Atty., San Angelo, Eldon Mahon, Dist. Atty., Sweetwater, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, twenty-five years.

The State's case showed an unprovoked killing of a stranger in a beer tavern.

The defense was that appellant was in a state of insulin shock, knew nothing of what transpired, and was…