Williams v. State

OPINION

BROWN, Commissioner.

This appeal is from a conviction for the offense of murder with malice; the punishment assessed by the jury is confinement in the penitentiary for life.

In three grounds of error the appellant challenges the admission into evidence by the trial court of, first, photographs of the deceased, being gruesome and bloody; second, heavily blood-stained clothing of deceased; and, third, a pair of boots taken from appellant at the time of his arrest and various items of clothing seized from appellant’s residence under color of consent given by his cotenant.

The appellant in…