Parks v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for murder; punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for twenty-five years.

Appellant stands convicted of drowning his wife in Lake Trammell near Sweetwater, Texas, on July 8, 1932. Some time during the year 1929 appellant met Fay Condit, a prostitute living at Hazel Wood’s place in the town of Sweetwater. From then until the death of his wife Fay Condit was appellant’s *407paramour. In September, 1931, Fay Condit left Hazel’s place and took up her residence in a hotel in Sweetwater, where she lived until June, 1932. During her stay at the hotel, she bought an…