Carpenter v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for fifty years.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed A. B. Hill by shooting him with a gun.

Deceased, who was about 60 years of age, was the father-in-law of appellant. For seven or eight months prior to the homicide he had been living in appellant’s home. It appears that appellant and his wife had been having domestic difficulties and were practically separated at the time of the homicide. According to appellant’s version, his wife had promised to…