Grissett v. State

FOSTER, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and punishment fixed at thirty-five years in the penitentiary, for the killing of Hillary Killingsworth. Two other men, Truman Paul and Curtis Sanders, were killed in the same transaction. It does not appear whether he was also indicted for killing them.

The State, in making out its case, proved by a witness alleged to be present that defendant shot each of those three men, one after the other in rapid succession — only one shot for each — and that Killingsworth and Paul died immediately; Sanders was carried to a hospital…