Wall v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

Appellant was convicted and assessed the death penalty for the murder of Jacob Coleman.

The deceased occupied a room on the third floor of the Marlowe Apartments in Waco, and was employed as a guard at the Crawford-Austin Company.

When he failed to show up for work on the early morning of August 27, 1950, a fellow employee went to the deceased’s room to investigate and found his dead body lying on the floor “bound and gagged, tied hand and foot, with an undershirt tied under his neck.’’

Dr. W. W. Klatt, who viewed the body in the room and later performed an autopsy, described the…