Adams v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

Appellant was indicted for murder in the second degree and convicted thereof. His punishment was fixed at. imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of ten years. From the judgment of conviction, sentence thereon, and the court’s action in denying his motion for a new trial appellant perfected this appeal.

Appellant, Frank Adams, and the deceased Rudolph Cooper, had been together most of the night of November 18-19, 1944. A group of four or five men had gathered at appellant’s quarters on the night of November 18 and there had been some dice shooting and whiskey drinking,…