Reeves v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

— Appéllant was convicted for the murder of Turner Gamble and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for ninety-nine years.

■ Appellant lived on Fairmount Street in the city of Dallas. His brother, Walter Reeves, lived on the same street near appellant. Diagonally across the street lived Bessie Brown, her husband Will Brown, and her brother Dick Gamble. The deceased, Turner Gamble, did not live with them but on the afternoon of the homicide was visiting at their house. We conclude from the testimony that appellant had no acquaintance whatever with deceased.…