Gray v. State

OPINION

DAVIS, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for murder with malice. The punishment was assessed by the jury at 75 years.

The record reflects that the appellant and deceased had been living with two sisters in the same house and that two days before the deceased was killed, the deceased had raped the sister appellant had been living with; that on the day in question, appellant went to the house where the girl deceased was to marry lived, and according to appellant, he took a gun with him because he knew that deceased had a gun, and that his purpose in going was to persuade…