King v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

The record in this case is a pathetic but striking demonstration of that truism of the Holy Writ, that “The wages of sin is death.” The deceased was a woman of the underworld, a habitue of the river district in San Angelo. Her associates, judged from the record, were of the lowest type. The appellant was a young man about town who, to judge from the same record, “ne’er in virtue’s ways did take delight.” The deceased, Katie Ryan, was found in the river near San Angelo, on Sunday, January 26, of last year. An autopsy disclosed the fact that she did not come to her death by…