Curtis v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, murder; penalty, twenty-five years in the penitentiary.

Appellant and deceased were both negroes. The deceased lived in Newton County and the appellant in Liberty County. The motive for the killing apparently was the fact that deceased was going with the wife of appellant, from whom he was at the time separated. The killing happened about twelve o’clock on Sunday night. The deceased was apparently shot from ambush a few feet from the house of Henry McCarter. The imprint of a shoe track was found on the ground at the scene of the killing. A witness testified that…