Davis v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Stephens County of murder, and his punishment fixed at thirty years in the penitentiary.

Appellant and his wife had separated and she had filed application for divorce. The woman was living with -her mother and sisters in a little house adjacent to which was another house occupied by another sister and her husband. On the night of this homicide appellant came to the house occupied by his wife and engaged her in conversation relative to coming back to him. She refused to do it and he drew a pistol and shot her, and two of her…