Lolmaugh v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder. The jury assessed punishment at ten years.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged. Appellant, in the controlling issue, contends that the court erred in permitting proof that he shot another man who was his wife’s lover. We overrule this contention and affirm.

Julia Lolmaugh, appellant's wife, left him with their children so that she could go to a picture show. She testified that instead of going to the show she went to the Circus Room, a bar in Amarillo, where she visited with her father, Leonard Mullin, the…