Barnett v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was assessed a penalty of fifty years in the penitentiary by a jury in the District Court of Ward County on a charge of murder. The offense is alleged to have been committed in Winkler County where the indictment was originally returned and a previous trial was had in that county, which resulted in a conviction. The District Judge granted a new trial and transferred the case to Ward County.

It is alleged in the indictment that the appellant killed Charlie Watson on the 10th day of December, 1940, by striking him with a blunt instrument, the exact nature of which was…