Wells v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appeal is from a conviction for murder with malice, with a sentence of thirty-five years in the penitentiary.

Appellant is alleged to have shot and killed J. L. Montgomery on the 11th day of August, 1947. The facts show that appellant was a tenant in a business building belonging to deceased; that he was engaged in running a domino hall, while deceased had a package store and probably other businesses in the same block but on a different street. They had had differences on more than one occasion because deceased would raise the rent above what appellant thought he should.…