Glass v. State

McDONALD, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder with malice aforethought; the punishment, fifty (50) years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

Appellant was found guilty of murdering his wife, who, as stipulated by both parties, met her death as a result of a gunshot wound which entered her chest in the vicinity of her heart.

The evidence adduced by the state was circumstantial, and consisted in part of oral statements made by appellant to a police officer during the course of the investigation of the deceased’s death.

In response to the officer’s question as to what had…