HARRIS, Alias WILLIAMS v. State

Candler, Justice.

Willie B. Harris, alias Chess Williams, was indicted in Worth County for murder. He filed a plea of not guilty. The jury convicted him without recommendation, and he was sentenced to death by electrocution. A motion- for new trial was made, which, after being amended by adding three special grounds, was overruled. The exception is to that judgment.

The evidence at the trial, in so far as necessary to be stated, tended to show the following: Tiny Cheney, a widow, and her two small children, resided with her parents in Worth County. The defendant, a widower and a much older…