Parks v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder, punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of ninety-nine years.

The deceased, called Donna McGuffin Calvert, was shot and killed in the St. Charles Hotel at Amarillo. The testimony leads to the conclusion that the appellant had, for some time previous to her death, engaged in illicit sexual relations with the deceased. At the time of her death she was housekeeper at the hotel mentioned, and she and Fred Calvert were living together as husband and wife, though unmarried. One or two days before the tragedy, appellant became a…