McKinney v. State

HEHDEBSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for life; hence this appeal.

The homicide occurred in the town of Carney, Haskell County. Bob Walker, deceased, his brother, Tom Walker, and McCullough kept a restaurant, or lunch stand, and McKinney and Lester Power were publishing a newspaper; Power being the owner. The business part of the town was in one line of houses, extending along the street, from north to south. Walker & McCullough’s store, was one hundred or one hundred and fifty feet north of the…