Barnes v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bowie. Tried' below before the Honorable P. A. Turner. Appeal from a conviction of murder;; penalty, ninety-nine years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
RATTIMORE, Judgb.
Appellant was convicted in the criminal District Court of Bowie County of murder, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the State penitentiary for ninety-mine years.
All the parties to this tragedy were at a dance which broke up about 12 o’clock at night. John Reeder and the deceased, Tom Smith, were the escorts of Edith and Hallie Tittle, and the party left the dance together in a car, Reeder and Edith on the front seat of the car and deceased and Hallie in the rear. According to the State’s testimony, the substance of which we give, before their car left the scene of…
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