Edmonson v. State

384 S.W.2d 702 (1964)

Earnest Manuel EDMONSON, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 37181.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 11, 1964.

Rehearing Denied December 16, 1964.

Malcolm Sanders, Beaumont, for appellant.

W. C. Lindsey, Dist. Atty., Kenneth L. Parker, Asst. Dist. Atty., Beaumont, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder without malice; the punishment, five years.

The testimony of the state reveals that the appellant was visiting his niece, Dorothy, and her sister, Gloria, in Dorothy's side of a duplex;…