Jones v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

Appellant, his wife, and 12-year old daughter lived in a railroad section house in the city of Hamlin. The telephone operator in that city testified that shortly after midnight on February 27,1951, she got a signal from the telephone in the section house, and a male voice said, “Get the fire department; the house is burning up.” She stated that a few minutes thereafter she got another call from the same house, and the same voice commanded her to get an ambulance, informing her that two people were dead down there.

Several of the…