Claxton v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder, the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for 99 years.

This is the second appeal of this case. The first appeal is reported in 288 S. W. 444. The companion case of Claxton v. State is reported in 280 S. W. 832. In the instant case appellant was convicted of the murder of Otto Junek, and in the companion case of the murder of J. M. McAlpine. Both homicides resulted from the same transaction and occurred at the same time and place. The evidence disclosed by the present record is substantially the same as that shown in the former appeal of this case…