Martin v. State

BAKER, Judge. —

The appellant was convicted in the Criminal' District Court No. 2 of Dallas County for the offense of murder, and his punishment assessed at ninety-years in the penitentiary.

The record discloses that the appellant was charged by indictment with murdering R. B. Parsons, a deputy sheriff, in Denton County, on the 6th day of August, 1925, and that the venue of said cause was changed to Dallas County.

Brifly stated, it was the contention of the state that the appellant, with malice aforethought and without cause or provocation, shot and killed the deceased, with a pistol, upon the…