Brown v. State

Appellant was tried upon a charge of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed by killing his father-in-law, John R. Stovall, by striking him with a skein from a wagon axle on the morning of March 16, 1939, and from the judgment sentencing appellant to a term of twenty years in the penitentiary is this appeal. Only, one question is raised on the appeal, and that is whether error was committed in the admission of an alleged confession.

Appellant had only recently married Stovall’s youngest daughter, and lived with Stovall as a member of his family. There was no evidence of any…