Alsup v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for murder; punishment, twenty years in the penitentiary.'

Appellant was convicted for the murder of a negro named Tate, the state’s theory in the trial of the case being that appellant and others induced Tate and another negro to go to the Polytechnic State Bank in the suburbs of Fort Worth and there engage, or appear to engage, in an attempt to rob said bank, in order to furnish appellant a pretext for killing said negroes, and to enable him to thus secure from certain banks a reward of $5,000 theretofore offered for the killing of any bank robber in this state.…