Lott v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for murder, punishment having been assessed at death.

Deceased was Clarence Erwin, a white man of mature years. Appellant was a young negro man, 24 years of age. Erwin was a dairy route man and on the morning of the homicide, August 23, 1931, was accompanied on his route by his nephew, Rogan Reagan, who was a boy sixteen years old. The two of them stopped about four-thirty a. m. on the corner of Piedras and Silver streets in the city of El Paso to rest. They were out of the milk wagon and sitting on the curb. A car driven by appellant, who was accompanied by Robert…