Lawler v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for 45 years.

Appellant was the son-in-law of Tom Motley, the deceased. In December, 1926, appellant, his wife and three small children were living together. Some time during the month of December, while appellant was away from home, Beulah Lawler, his wife, went to Oklahoma in a stolen car with a man by the name of Bill Hickman. The children of appellant and his wife were left with appellant’s parents. About December 18th, appellant’s wife returned to Texas and went to the home of her father, the deceased,…