McKelvey v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted and convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at life imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The State’s evidence would show that appellant was running a restaurant at Temule, and had as one of his waiters Jett Haley, a woman whose virtue was questionable, to say the least. Prior to the time she went to work for appellant as a waiter, she admits she was boarding and staying with a woman who was known as a prostitute. That while staying, with this woman she was frequently visited by appellant, and was also quite as often visited by…