Orange v. State

HEHDEBSOE", Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at imprisonment for life; hence this appeal. The State’s theory was that the homicide was committed by appellant on deceased, who was his father-in-law, because deceased had ordered him to remove from his house and take up his abode elsewhere—appellant at the time living with his wife at his father-in-law’s house. The State’s testimony tends to show that sometime antedating the homicide, appellant and his father-in-law did not get along harmoniously. On the morning of the homicide appellant’s…