Clowers v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is murder. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for life.

The State’s theory was that appellant killed the deceased, A. E. Newman, with malice aforethought, while appellant contended that he did so in self-defense.

*3Two persons besides the appellant were present when the killing occurred, both of whom testified that the deceased was sitting in a pick-up truck and that they were standing on the side of it talking to him when appellant came across the highway to the rear of the truck and then walked up to the left side of it; that after he had…