Tubb v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

Appellant was indicted in the District Court of Anderson County on a charge of murder, and on trial was convicted of murder in the first degree and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for life. That he shot and killed Dave Pierce on the 30th day of January, 1907, is not denied, nor is there any pretense of justification for his having so done. The facts are that he lived and had lived for many years near the town of Erankston, in Anderson County; that sometime in the fall of 1907 he had bought from the Campbell Machinery Company a gasoline engine and wood…