Hoover v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

The conviction is for murder; the penalty, twenty-five years.

The record reflects that Donald Paul Hoover, the appellant, and Virginia Lynn Martin, the deceased, were living together and that appellant shot and killed her. His defense was that he accidentally shot the deceased when he fired a pistol to awaken her.

The sufficiency of the evidence is challenged.

Officers of the Fort Worth Police Department in response to a call that there had been a shooting went to the garage apartment where the appellant and the deceased lived. Shortly after the officers arrived appellant…