Bolden v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted and convicted of murder and his punishment fixed at twenty years confinement in the penitentiary.

Appellant assigns many grounds in his motion for a new trial, but we are of the opinion but one of them presents reversible error. Deceased ran a store in the suburbs of Houston. Mail was left there for a number of his customers, and on the night of the homicide appellant went to the store to get his mail and he then details the difficulty as follows: “I came in and spoke to him; he was in the rear part of the store behind the counter. I asked him for my…