Toussaint v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

— The judgment condemns appellant to suffer death for the offense of murder.

The deceased and appellant were father and son. They were partners in business and lived together in the same bachelor’s quarters.

Appellant, who was thirty-three years of age, formed the design to kill his father and purchased a pistol for that purpose. The father went in his automobile to spend the evening at the home of a neighbor, and while there, appellant secretly disconnected and removed some of the wiring in the automobile to prevent its use, secreted himself so that when his father…