Galloway v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment assessed by the jury, twenty (20) years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

On Saturday evening, November 20, 1965, Bernie Miles (the deceased), Maurice Thornton, Chester Wilson, and Annie Pearson were sitting at a table near the stage in Delmonico’s, a Dallas nightclub. Near closing time appellant and one Acres-ton Henry (“Sixteen”) and others began the performance of the last floor show with “Sixteen” playing the part of a woman. When “Sixteen” appeared in a dress the deceased pulled him from the stage,…