Davis v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder with the death penalty assessed.

There is no necessity of reciting the testimony of the several witnesses. However, it was clearly sufficient to. show, and authorize the jury to find that shortly before the night of July 8, 1916, John Davis, a brother of appellant, and Charley House had stolen a large number— fifty-seven — watermelons out of the field of Frank Wehmeyer, and hid them in the bushes and grape vines in Mr. Buck’s hay field. That Mr. Wehmeyer had discovered that his melons had been stolen, and after searching found them where…