Tyson v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Murder is the offense; the punishment, thirty years in the State penitentiary.

Deceased, a seventeen-year-old boy, and appellant, twenty-eight years of age, were complete strangers. There is no evidence of prior ill-feeling, animosity, or express motive for the killing. In fact, it is a killing unexplained. All parties are negroes. All events occurred at night.

According to the State’s case, the appellant, in company with two women, went to a cafe where sandwiches and beer were served. Appellant exhibited a pistol and made the statement: “When I get drunk I get ornery.”…