Pruitt, Jr. v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

The offense is murder and the penalty death. The deceased had accompanied a Miss Drennan to church on the Sunday evening of the tragedy. They returned home after services down one of the main streets of the City of Dallas and had stopped for a red signal light at a street intersection. A man came across the street, jumped in the car, told the young lady to move over and thrust himself into the car on top of her. He said to the deceased, “Keep still or I’ll knock you over,” whereupon deceased pushed him off of her and out of the car, following him into the street. In the…