Wilson v. State

DICE, Judge.

Murder is the offense; the punishment, death.

The state’s proof shows that the deceased, James Edward Layland, seventy-eight years of age, lived alone on a small farm located approximately three miles northeast of the city of Cleburne on what was known as the old Mansfield Road. On the afternoon of November 29, 1960, appellant and a companion, John Leonard Watson, appeared in the neighborhood, on foot, seeking assistance in moving appellant’s automobile from a road where it had struck a rock. They first came to the house of Claude Campbell, which was across the road from the…