Opp v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

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

The appellant was convicted of the murder of W. R. Tomlinson. The indictment was filed in Menard County but the case was tried on a change of venue in Burnet County. The appellant was sentenced on February 15, 1936, on which date the court adjourned.

A summary of the evidence is as follows: Appellant owned' a tract of land in Menard County known as the “Brown Ranch” the north part of which was occupied by Tomlinson as a sheep* *223ranch under a written lease from November 1, 1933,…