Thompson v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the murder of John West and his punishment assessed at ten years in the penitentiary.

The killing occurred between 5 and 6 o’clock in the evening of August 29, 1914, at the house of Bessie Williams (Joyce) in the City of Fort Worth. During said evening the deceased, appellant and perhaps two other parties were at the house of Bessie Williams, and all of them drank considerable alcohol and were pretty drunk. Bessie Williams was a prostitute. Deceased had kept her for some time. However, he had been away a short while, and for three or four…