Gassett v. State

OPINION

KEITH, Commissioner.

The jury convicted appellant of murder with malice and set his punishment at confinement for twenty-two years.

Under the undisputed record, appellant shot Dr. Bob Sollock once in the chest with a pistol and the wound caused death almost instantaneously. Appellant was married to the former wife of the deceased and there had been many court hearings involving the custody of a child born of the marriage of the deceased and appellant’s wife.

The last custody hearing resulted in a modification of the decree whereby the deceased regained custody of the child and appellant’s…