Bond v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge. —

Conviction of murder, punishment, twenty years in the penitentiary.

Deceased, his wife and three children were picking cotton on the farm of one Finley on the 17th day of November, 1925. Deceased was weighing a sack of cotton beside a wagon. The others were at the end of nearby rows of cotton. Finley was tramping cotton in said wagon, which stood in the turnrow, its tongue north. Appellant in a car headed south, drove up, stopped the car a short way from the end of the wagon tongue, left the engine running, got out, called the deceased to come to him twice, then walked part…