Jones v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

The appellant was charged with the murder of Alvin Stephenson, convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary, for life.

It is unnecessary to give any extended statement of the evidence. The appellant testified on the trial. He was then thirty-one years old. The deceased was his uncle; sixty-seven years old at the time of the killing. Appellant testified that some trouble arose between him and deceased about two years before the killing. This grew out of appellant’s action while on the grand jury about some charges…