Brown v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder with malice. The jury assessed punishment at death.

Appellant was convicted of the January 14, 1971, murder of Lillian Kesler. The State relied in part on the testimony of an accomplice witness, Bobby DeShazo. The sufficiency of the evidence is challenged.

On the afternoon of January 13, the appellant, DeShazo and Billy Croft decided to burglarize several farmhouses. During that evening, they entered the home of I. H. Parks near South Plains where they took a twelve-gauge shotgun. On arriving at the Kesler farmhouse near…