Archer v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for murder, punishment thirty-five years in the penitentiary.

It may be stated that all the parties connected with this killing were negroes. Several years prior to the homicide appellant had married Viola, a daughter of Nancy Johnson. At the time of the marriage she had other children younger than Viola, they being a- girl, Laura, and a boy, Willie. After appellant and Viola were married Laura, Willie, Nancy and Nancy’s mother lived with appellant and his wife. Appellant seemed to have been regarded as the head of the family, and the relations among all the…