Bracken v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for ninety-nine years.

It was charged in the indictment that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Bill Johns by shooting him with a shotgun.

Deceased was a police officer in the city of Gainesville and had occupied that position for some time. A few days prior to the homicide deceased and Walter Clements, another police officer, were advised that appellant was trying to get into the house of a negro woman with a shotgun. They instituted a search for appellant, but were unable to find him. Seeing a…