Lawrence v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for murder; punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

Upon rehearing, the original opinion is withdrawn and the following substituted therefor:

Appellant owned a large ranch on which he lived. No other dwellings were near his. Lundy rented land from appellant for rice cultivation, and his house was nearest that of appellant. The rice had been cut and shocked. Ponds, ditches, levies, laterals and much water were around the scene of the shooting, which was in Lundy’s rice field not far from the edge of appellant’s pasture. The growth between Lundy’s field and…