Parker v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of two years.

Appellant’s principal contention seems to be that the evidence is wholly insufficient to warrant and sustain his conviction. We are unable to reach such a conclusion from a careful study of the record.

The State’s testimony, briefly stated, shows that on the night of January 23, 1932, J. A. Honeycutt, Mrs. Rush Payne, Bonnie Payne and the deceased, were on their way to San Augustine in a car. They stopped at a drug store and from there drove out and stopped on the side…