Tait v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.

Appellant shot and killed his half-brother, Pearl Rudasill. Appellant’s mother had been married twice, and he was the offspring of the first marriage. There were three sons by the second marriage. Mrs. Rudasill and her husband, Emanuel Rudasill, were' separated. A suit for divorce had been filed and the rights to property in 363 acres of land put in issue and awarded to Mrs. Rudasill as her separate property. An injunction had been issued against her husband and his…