Ward v. State

Hill, Chief Justice.

Mickey Ray Ward was tried by a jury and convicted of the murder of Danny Wood.1 The evidence authorized the jury to find the following facts.

*86On the evening of January 25,1982, about eight people were at the defendant’s trailer drinking and listening to music. Earlier in the evening, when the defendant’s wife and another woman had gone out for liquor, they stopped by Jimmy Whitlock’s trailer. The victim was there, and they told him that the defendant wanted to see him about some money owed the defendant.

When the victim arrived at the defendant’s trailer with a friend at…