Moore v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

—The conviction is for murder; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.

The deceased, Ellis Johnson, was shot and killed while in the house occupied by the appellant, her husband and daughter.

To state’s witnesses entering the house immediately after the shot was fired, appellant- said: “I think he is dead. I think I gave him a good shot;” that she also said she “had killed a man in defense of her baby child.” The wound indicated that the shot had entered on one side and come out on the other, probably piercing the heart. To an…