Hurst v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

—Appellant was convicted of murder and given eight years in the penitentiary.

The indictment charged him with the murder of Wes Whiteley. Appellant was the father-in-law of deceased. They were living upon the same farm, Whiteley working part of the land. After Whiteley moved from Williamson county to the farm occupied by appellant in Milam County, he occupied for a while a house on the premises, but later on, with the consent of his father-in-law, moved into the residence of his father-in-law. The family of deceased consisted of himself, wife and one child. Deceased…