Lee v. State

286 S.W.2d 633 (1956)

Elsie Mae LEE, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 27796.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 11, 1956.

Burt Barr, James H. Martin, Robert C. Benavides, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Crim. Dist. Atty., Fred Bruner, Harvey Lindsay, Jerry Shivers, and Charles S. Potts, Asst. Crim. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder with malice; the punishment, 15 years in the penitentiary.

The state's testimony shows that appellant and the deceased were married on November 22,…