Walker v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The conversation is for murder; the punishment of Walker is fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of ninety-nine years and that of Howard and Williams, each, sixty years.

Jack McCurdy, a young married man, had charge of a ranch consisting of eighteen hundred acres of land upon which he lived in a house alone. Another house was occupied by Howard and Willman and their wives; another by Earl Henry and wife. Walker lived nearby and worked for Willman. These habitations were all near each other. Willman’s home was about fifty yards from the Frisco Railroad…