Duncan v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is murder. The punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of seven years.

It appears from the record that sometime prior to the killing, the deceased and appellant were partners in a filling-station at or near the town of Burnet. They also sold fish bait to sportsmen who came to the Buchanan Dam to fish. A short time prior to the homicide they dissolved the partnership and went back to Temple, their former home. It further appears that sometime later, the deceased contended that in the division of the assets of their business he did not…