Claxton v. State

Conviction in District Court of Milam County of murder; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for life.

This is a companion case to Claxton v. State, No. 9512, opinion handed down during this term. The facts are very much the same as in the companion case, and we see no reason for entertaining divergent views as to the law of the case.

It is shown without dispute that on the morning of the homicide appellant shot and killed two men, one a neighbor of long standing and the other of comparative recent acquaintance, with neither of whom he had had any words or quarrel or against whom…