Walker v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the Criminal District Court of Harris County for murder, and his punishment fixed at death.

It appears from the record that appellant and deceased, whose name was Ottersky, on the 26th day of April, 1919, went in a car to a place in the woods not far from Houston, and that the body of deceased was found at this place some three days later, with four bullet holes, several of which were in vital places; said body being buried in a shallow grave, and evidence appeared of the fact that said body was dragged to said place from a point some yards distant.…