Jennings v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for thirty years.

The case was tried in Reeves county on a change of venue from Winkler county.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant and W. K. Wilson, with malice aforethought, killed W. M. Laughlin by shooting him with a gun. A severance was had and appellant first placed upon trial.

It was the theory of the state that the homicide grew out of an attempt on the part of appellant and W. K. Wilson to control the illicit traffic in intoxicating liquor in Winkler county. Appellant was a…