Harper v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is murder. The punishment assessed is death.

The record in this case is before us without any bills of exception or any objections to the court’s charge.

The only matter presented for review is the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction.^ In' order that this opinion may reflect the basis for our conclusion on the question presented, we deem it proper to briefly recite the facts proven on the trial as the same appear from the record.

On Sunday evening Clarence Edwards left the home of J. H. McClain, his brother-in-law, in his automobile, a 1941 Ford V-8…