Anderson v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The appellant, was tried and convicted of the offense of murder, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of fifteen years.

The testimony adduced upon the trial, briefly stated, is as follows: In the early part of the month of July, 1934, Mrs. Anderson, wife of appellant, was visiting her sister, Mrs. Dan Jackson, at Lake Bridgeport, Texas. On the 5th day of July, she went to a small mercantile establishment owned and conducted by the deceased, U. E. (“Bess”) Byers, with a view of purchasing five cents’ worth of ice, having theretofore…