Crenshaw v. State

254 S.W.2d 402 (1952)

CRENSHAW

v.

STATE.

No. 26033.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

November 12, 1952.

Rehearing Denied January 28, 1953.

Cofer & Cofer, Austin, for appellant.

George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was assessed a penalty of fifty years in the penitentiary upon a charge of murder.

The evidence of the night preceding the tragedy is quite involved. It appears, however, that a number of young people, at least some of whom lived in the City of Austin, were in a car; that some of them were drinking; and that an argument took place…