Beasley v. State

DICE, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, fifty years.

The evidence was undisputed that appellant killed the deceased, who was his father-in-law, by shooting him with a gun. The homicide occurred on a Saturday afternoon at the home of the deceased at Old Washington in Washington County. The proof shows that, on the afternoon prior to the day of the killing, appellant and his wife came to the deceased’s home to visit their four-year old daughter, who was living with her grandparents. That night, appellant, his wife, and the deceased left and went to several beer taverns where appellant…