Littles v. State

The offense is murder; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.

From the evidence we learn the following: Charley Littles and his wife, Ethel Littles, negroes, conducted a restaurant. M. H. Ellis, Jr., a youth fourteen years of age, was an employee of Charley Littles. While in the restaurant, Charley Littles received a gunshot wound in the head which killed him. The only witness present besides the appellant was the Ellis boy. He was called and used by the State as a witness. After describing the altercation between the appellant and the deceased, his…