Dickens v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

The offense, murder; the punishment, two. years in the penitentiary.

The state’s evidence in brief showed that on the day of the killing, the appellant went to one T. L. Patterson and asked him if he could bale his hay for him and asked Patterson if he would get a gun that he had pawned at the hardware store and to keep it for him until he baled the hay. After they got the gun, the appellant wanted to secure said Patterson with a watch instead of the gun, which Patterson agreed to do, and took the watch and held it for the debt and turned the pistol over to the appellant. When…