Trammel v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

— Luke Trammel and Forrest Gibson were convicted of murder with malice. Gibson’s punishment was assessed at sixty years and that of Trammel at death. Trammel alone has appealed.

Appellant and his co-defendant Gibson were convicts confined at the Retrieve State Farm in Brazoria County, Texas. On the morning of June 19, 1936, a squad of twenty-two convicts under two guards were being taken from the barracks along the turn row to their work in the corn field. Each of the convicts was riding a mule. Luke Trammel slid from his mile, secreted himself in the corn and Johnson grass on…