Calloway v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Upshur. Tried below before the Honorable J. R. Warren. Appeal from a conviction of murder; penalty, thirty-seven years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
HAWKINS, Judge.
— Appellant is under conviction for killing his wife, punishment having been assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for 37 years.
Appellant and deceased had been sweethearts for more than a year before the former enlisted in the United States Navy about the time the World War began. He served in the Navy during the war, during which time he and deceased corresponded regularly. He was discharged from the Navy about the first of January, 1920. They were married on May 9, 1920. The latter part of June appellant visited the office of a physician in company with deceased…
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