Russell v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— Appellant was convicted in the Criminal District Court of Harris County of the offense of murder, and his punishment fixed at death.

Continued trouble between appellant and his wife culminated in the shooting of wife’s brother in the courthouse at Houston following a hearing in court upon appellant’s request for a change or modification of the court’s order relating to his two children, which order had been made in a divorce proceeding some time prior thereto. From the record it appears that after the proceedings were ended, appellant went to the entrance floor of the…