Jackson v. State

Krueger, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for life.

The evidence adduced by the State, briefly stated, shows that on the night of the 14th day of March, 1938, appellant shot his wife’s arm off and also shot and killed his son, Oscar, a man of about twenty-seven years of age, and then set fire to the house and virtually cremated the body of his son.

Appellant and his wife did not get along very well, and several months prior to the fatal difficulty, he engaged the services of an attorney for the purpose of obtaining a divorce, but they…