Lott v. State

McCORD, Judge.

Appellant was indicted for murder, and his trial resulted in a conviction of murder in the first degree with a life sentence in the penitentiary.

The indictment charged that appellant, in the county of Bowie, State of Texas, on the 12th day of June, 1909, did kill and murder William Temple by cutting him with a razor, or with some sharp instrument, and by choking said Temple and by striking him with some instrument to the grand jurors unknown, and by setting fire to the house in which the said Temple then and there was, and burning the said William Temple up. A summary of the…