Dixon v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for murder, punishment being confinement in the penitentiary for eighteen years.

This is the third appeal. The result of the first will be found reported in 91 Tex. Crim. Rep. 217, 238 S. W. 227, and the second in 100 Tex. Crim. Rep. 83, 271 S. W. 897. The facts are fully stated in the opinion on the first appeal and only enough will be here given as seems called for in the discussion of the legal points presented.

The party killed was Jim Havard, who had married appellant’s sister. The killing occurred on Monday morning at deceased’s home. State’s witnesses…