Hall v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

The offense, murder; the punishment, thirty years in the penitentiary.

The deceased, Barnsley, was a ranchman and lived with his family on his ranch. Adjoining the ranch on the west was the ranch known as the Red Bluff or old McIntyre pasture. In the last-named pasture, deceased had a lease on a number of sections. This ranch extended from the west boundary of deceased’s own ranch for some distance west to the Pecos river. Appellant worked as a cow hand for deceased for about a year up to August, 1929, and subsequently had worked for an adjoining ranchman, Jim Tubb. In the fall…