Cline v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

The offense is murder. The punishment assessed is death.

Appellant brings forward a number of complaints, each of which he contends constitutes reversible error.

His first contention is that the evidence is insufficient to sustain his conviction and, therefore, the trial court erred in declining to peremptorily instruct the jury to acquit him. We are of the opinion that the evidence is ample to sustain the conviction.

' The record reflects that on the night of December 22, 1945, Clyde Freddy Hears (the deceased), his wife, W. R. Kennedy, Mrs. Mildred Frances, and Bobbie Bowen went…