Rose v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder, and his punishment assessed at ten years in the penitentiary.

In practically every contested case of this character the evidence is conflicting, and frequently more or less impeachment of the material witnesses. All that occurred in this case. But as is always the case, such matters are for the jury and the lower court, and not for this court. A brief statement of the testimony only is necessary.

On Christmas evening late Florence Holloway, the deceased, was shot and killed. It occurred at a negro house of prostitution, in Waco.…