Tyler v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for fifteen years.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Dudley Williams by shooting him with a gun. The companion case of Chance v. State is found reported in 68 South Western, Second Series, at page 212. *

The questions brought forward by the bills of exception are discussed in this opinion in the order in which they are presented in appellant’s brief.

Bills of exception 16 to 20, inclusive, recite that the wife of Buddie Camper was sitting next to…