McCaine v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Under an indictment for murder with malice, appellant was convicted by the jury for the unlawful killing of Elnora Collins, and by them given the penalty of death.

The facts disclose that on September 30, 1945, the deceased was seen in Houston, Texas, evidently waiting for a bus, intending to ride to her place of abode. About the 3rd day of October, 1945, near a road leading to Houston but in Jefferson County, Texas, the nude dead body of a young woman was found in a wooded area, the upper part of such body having been burned. That body had a zircon ring on a finger, one shoe and…