Shipman v. State

Frank Holt, Justice.

By felony information the appellant was charged with first degree murder. A jury found him guilty and assessed his punishment at life imprisonment in the state pentientiary. From that judgment appellant, through his court-appointed trial counsel, brings this appeal. For reversal we first consider appellant’s contention that “the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction of first degree murder.”

The decedent’s oldest child, a nine-year-old daughter, was a witness to the alleged crime. She testified that the appellant, decedent’s brother-in-law, came to the apartment…