Felix v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of murder and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years.

The testimony adduced by the State shows that on the afternoon of September 2, 1934, appellant came to the home of Ira Felix, his mother, and said that he had killed Willie Pearl, his wife. An investigation of the premises disclosed that the deceased was shot with a shotgun; that the shot went through the left wrist and penetrated her left breast, which produced almost instant death. A single-barrel shotgun was found on the…