McKenzie v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

On the night of September 10th, 1927, at about nine o’clock, the superintendent of Piggly-Wiggly store saw appellant standing across the street at a root beer stand, a distance of about sixty or seventy feet from his store. He phoned police officers, who appeared on the scene in a short time. The superintendent had been advised by the manager of the store that there was a man acting in a suspicious manner across the street from the store. When the police officers arrived on the scene, Sam Street, Chief of Police of San Antonio, and…