Smith v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The state’s evidence conclusively' shows, and the appellant in his testimony admits, that he went into a supermarket operated by two young Chinese men for the purpose of robbing them. Appellant testified that he bought the pistol which he used for the purpose of robbing someone and that earlier on the night of the homicide he went in the store, “looked it over,” •left, changed clothes and returned. The state’s witnesses testified that the appellant put some groceries in a basket, approached the checker’s stand which was…