Daugherty v. State

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

It was charged in the indictment that on or about the 2nd day of October, 1942, appellant did then and there, in Stonewall County, Texas, kill H. C. Walker by shooting him with a gun.

The venue of the case was changed by the court on his own motion from Stonewall to Haskell County, where the case was tried with the result as above stated.

Appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to justify and sustain his conviction. In order that this opinion may clearly reflect the…