Bridges v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of murder, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of 50 years.

The record shows that on the night of the first day of July, 1934, Jay Donaldson and Bertha Gordon were killed on the highway at a point approximately 3 miles east from the town of Post in Garza County, Texas. The State’s testimony shows that on or about the last day of March or the first day of April the appellant came to the home of Mrs. Susie Gordon and said that Dr. Kitchen, Ed Fraser, and Jay Donaldson had to die as…