Wheeler v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas. Tried below before the Hon. W." W. Nelms. Appeal from a conviction of murder in the first degree; penalty, death. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was given the death penalty under a charge of murder of George Heed,
The evidence, in substance, shows that appellant and deceased boarded at the house of one Rosa Griffin and were rivals for her favors. Some of the witnesses describe deceased as having “a brown skin and yellow eyes”; that he played a guitar at night and slept in the day time. Appellant was an employee of the M. K. & T. Ry. Co. and worked in the day and slept at night. The partiality of the deceased and appellant for Rosa Griffin seems to have led to the fight, which ended in this homicide,…
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