Burns v. State

McDONALD, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The evidence adduced by the state is reflected by the testimony from 10 witnesses.

On the 21st day of August, 1963, appellant, John Franklin Burns, W. H. Perkins, and Jessie J. Odum, deceased, spent a good portion of the evening going from bar to to bar, and drinking beer, in the section of Houston and surrounding areas through which the Market Street Road passes in *691Harris County, Texas. Perkins and appellant met about 7:30 P.M. at Jack and Betty’s Lounge or Bar, in Cloverleaf community on Market Street. They drank some…