Yarbrough v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

— Appellant is under conviction for murder growing out of the killing of C. H. Thalmann, punishment having been assessed at thirty years confinement in the penitentiary.

Appellant was running a rooming house in the town of Blue Ridge in the oil field in Fort Bend County. Deceased was rooming at the house. He owed appellant twenty-eight dollars. The record leaves it uncertain as to whether it was for borrowed money or room rent, or partly both. Appellant had made some complaint about deceased not paying him, and Worrell, for whom deceased was working had offered to see that the…