Sharp v. State

Appellant was given the death penalty under a charge of murder for the killing of John Cain, a police oliicer of the city of Houston.

*208The state’s case may be substantially stated as follows: Cain was a policeman on duty in his allotted beat on the night of the homicide. About 3:30, or a few minutes later, in the early morning, a policeman was heard to exclaim, “Stop! I am an officer;” and almost immediately a shot was fired. One or two policemen, hearing the exclamation and shot, went to the scene, and found deceased, one of them testified, “shot ■ through and through.” He was shot in the…