Houston v. State

ALMON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in Jefferson County Circuit Court of murder in the second degree and sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary.

Jerrell Dean Houston, the estranged wife of appellant, died as the result of a gunshot wound she received in the early morning hours of May 25, 1969. On the night of her death, she and a companion, Brenda Johnson, had been barhopping in and around Leeds. Appellant and Lloyd Johnson, the husband of Brenda Johnson, had also been visiting several bars in this same part of Jefferson County. There was evidence that during the evening appellant had…