Edmondson v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder, punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for life.

Fred Bollinger was an unmarried man, something over fifty years of age. He resided upon a farm in a small house about three-quarters of a mile from the home of the appellant, who also lived on a farm. On the morning of. November 11, Bollinger was discovered lying on his bed suffering from a gunshot wound in his breast. Near the bed was a .38-caliber pistol from which two shots had been recently fired. There was evidence that the wound upon Bollinger was inflicted by a bullet fired from…