Hettich v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for 40 years.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Alvie Luckey by shooting him with a gun.

The proof showed that deceased and Geneva, the 19 year old daughter of appellant, had had sexual relations, resulting in the birth of a child. Two or three days before the child was born deceased and Geneva married. After the child died deceased abandoned his wife.

The homicide occurred on the 14th of April, 1935, approximately eight months after the marriage.…