Housden v. State

Conviction for murder; punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

We find no brief on file for the appellant. The facts, from the standpoint of the appellant, show that appellant went with his son and others for the purpose of apprehending persons whom he had been told were acting in a suspicious manner so as to lead appellant’s informant to think they intended to *258commit robbery or some other offense, and that he with his posse came upon a car in the nightime which appellant approached, with a pistol in his hand, and ordered the parties in the car to “stick ’em up,” and upon his belief that…