Stanley v. State

MORROW, Judge.

Indicted for the murder of Thurston Bobbitt, appellant was convicted, the jury fixing his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for seventeen years.

Appellant owned a farm upon which there was located besides Ms dwelling a tenant house, which up to a few days before the homicide was occupied by appellant’s son, D. H. Stanley, and his family. Forrest Owens owned an adjoining farm and kept a store, which was situated about 300 yards south from appellant’s tenant house. The deceased for some two months prior to the homicide lived in a covered wagon which stood near Owens’…