Dee Puckett v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for 75 years.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Will McWhorter by shooting him with a gun .

The homicide occurred on the 12th of April, 1935, in a field near the home of appellant. There appears to have been a controversy between appellant and deceased concerning the fact that deceased had rented some land which appellant had been farming. According to the version of appellant, his wife had told him that deceased had come to their home in his…