Taylor v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is murder. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a period of twenty years.

The evidence in this case presented two theories. That of the State was a wilful and deliberate murder, while that of the appellant was an accidental discharge of the pistol by which the fatal injury was inflicted.

The record shows that appellant and the deceased had been married about one year at the time of the homicide; that she left him and went to her mother’s home; that on the day of the killing he came to her mother’s house in a car and sought to induce her…