Davis v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Stephens County of an assault to murder, and his punishment fixed at ten years in.the penitentiary.

Appellant and his wife had separated and she was living with her mother and sisters in a house a few feet from one occupied by another sister of hers and the husband of said sister. Appellant went to the place where his wife was living and engaged her in conversation relative to returning to him. Upon her refusal he shot her and almost immediately following shot her sister, the deceased in this case, and then shot another sister.…