Bradley v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— Appellant Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Limestone County of murder, and his punishment fixed at twenty years in the penitentiary.

Without stating the facts at length they sufficiently show that on the occasion charged in the indictment appellant shot and killed Elisha Downie. The eyewitnesses all testified that Downie was trying to. hide behind another man at the time, and that the shooting was with very little, if any, provocation or excuse.

Appellant filed a lengthy motion to quash the special venire which - was overruled and the bill of exceptions taken…