Miller v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, his punishment being assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for life.

He was charged with the killing of J. F. Turley on the night of October 1, 1906, and the evidence shows that it occurred in a saloon belonging to J. F. Manning, and that appellant was a saloon keeper in the City of El Paso and had been conducting such business for several years prior to the tragedy. He put in evidence, his general reputation as being a quiet peaceable man and sustained it by witnesses. On the day, preceding the homicide at…