Robbins v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

The offense is murder with malice; the punishment, fifty years in the penitentiary.

The state’s evidence shows that appellant, age 19 and married, and several teenage boys met at the home of Mrs. Ruth Craig about 9:30 P.M. on July 3, 1954, and there, with Patti Jetton and Pat Craig, both age 13, ate, drank some beer, gin and whisky, played a record player and danced. Mrs. Craig left the house about 10 P.M., stating that she would return in about an hour, but did not return until about 2 o’clock the following morning.

When appellant arrived at the Craig home that night he took a…