Douglas v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for 23 years.

The trial was had in Navarro county on a change of venue from Henderson county.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appel lant, with malice aforethought, killed Texana Hall by shooting her with a gun.

Some time prior to the homicide appellant had been shot by his son-in-law, Davis January. On the night of the homicide appellant’s son-in-law and his wife had driven to the home of the wife’s grandfather. Appellant lived about a mile away. In coming from his field, appellant passed…