Whiteside, Jr. v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, murder; penalty, eighteen years in the penitentiary.

The facts present an unusual case. Appellant was an attorney in the City of Houston and was the husband of deceased. Together they occupied an upstairs apartment. The substance of the State’s evidence is that appellant with three companions on the night of the tragedy came to appellant’s apartment drunk; that appellant wanted them to leave and deceased asked them not to, stating at the time that she feared appellant would kill her. They finally did leave, after which time appellant so terrorized and frightened deceased…