Flewellen v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, murder; penalty, ninety-nine years in the penitentiary.

The facts are perhaps sufficiently stated in the opinion on a former appeal, reported in 18 S. W. (2d) 1087, but we here briefly advert to the main incriminating and corroborative facts, in view of the appellant’s strenuous contention that the evidence is insufficient. Its insufficiency to corroborate the alleged accomplice, Sylvia Davis, is particularly stressed.

Sylvia Davis was the paramour of deceased, having had one child by him. She had been granting carnal favors to appellant, according to the undisputed…