Deuran v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of the offense of murder without malice, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of five years.

The record shows that early in the morning of the day of the alleged homicide appellant and C. M. Jones passed through the little town of Melvin in McCulloch County on their way to San Angelo. When they arrived at Brady Creek they noticed that the water was too high for them to cross in an automobile. They went back to the town of Melvin where they, for the first time, met Corbell, Johnson, and Baumgarten at a…