Roberts v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of ninety-nine years.

Appellant was a tenant upon the farm of Mrs. Twitty. Her son. Gip Twitty, the deceased, represented his mother in the management of the farm. He was shot and killed by the appellant, the homicide taking place at the home of the appellant and about 200 yards distant from the home of the deceased.

A motion to continue the case was overruled. The date of the homicide was the 11th of April. The indictment was returned on the 18th and the trial took place on the 25th…