Mayfield v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is murder. The punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a period of twenty years.

*528It was the state’s theory, finding support in the evidence, that on the afternoon of the 14th day of July, 1947, appellant, armed with a pistol, went to the office of the deceased and without any excuse or justification shot the deceased five or six times, inflicting fatal wounds from the effects of which death resulted immediately.

It was defendant’s theory that the deceased had invaded the sanctity of his home and corrupted the morals of his wife; that on…