Johnson v. State

BERRY, Judge. —

Appellant was convicted in the district court of McLennan County, for the offense of murder and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of forty years.

Briefly stated, the facts show that appellant was the son-in-law of deceased, having married his daughter a few months before the tragedy, and at the time thereof was living about three hundred yards from the home of the deceased and working land belonging to deceased. There were no eye witnesses to the killing except appellant’s wife. She explained the killing as being occasioned by the fact that…