Lamkin v. State

301 S.W.2d 922 (1957)

Marshall LAMKIN, alias Marshall Lamkins, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 28762.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 20, 1957.

Rehearing Denied May 1, 1957.

Kenneth R. Lamkin, and Joe B. Fleming, Austin, for appellant.

Wallace T. Barber, Dist. Atty., San Marcos, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The State's testimony shows that the appellant operated a shine parlor located in a building adjoining a place of business operated by the deceased, Ernest Webb, Jr. On the…