Threadgill v. State

239 S.W.2d 813 (1951)

THREADGILL

v.

STATE.

No. 25246.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 11, 1951.

Rehearing Denied June 6, 1951.

Pat Beadle, Clarksville, McKinney & McKinney, Cooper, for appellant.

George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.

GRAVES, Presiding Judge.

The conviction is for murder. The punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for five years.

Appellant and deceased owned adjacent farms. A dispute arose as to the correct location of a boundary line between their farms. The amount of land actually involved was a very small strip. Appellant had been…