Powers v. State

DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The state’s testimony shows that the deceased, Morris Weldon (Dicky) Renfro, nineteen years of age, was killed by a bullet fired from a .32 calibre pistol in the hands of appellant. The killing occurred in the parking area of Castle Hills Manor, an apartment complex on Blanco Road in the city of San Antonio, where the Renfro family lived.

It appears that on the night in question, the deceased and his friend and football teammate from Hardin Simmons University, Larry McNair, who was visiting him in San Antonio, had dates with two…