Simons v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The offense is murder; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for four years.

The appellant was convicted of the murder of Roy Young on August 24, 1938. On the occasion of the homicide, the mother of the appellant, an aged colored woman, was being given a dining on her birthday which was largely attended by guests who testified, some for the State and some for the appellant, that they had. been invited and urged to attend the occasion and were friends of the family. The deceased had a great many relatives there who uniformly testified for the State on the trial of…