Wilhelm v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is Murder with Malice; the punishment, 99 years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections. The trial was had in Navarro County following a change of venue, upon the court’s own motion, from Young County where it had originally been transferred from Stephens County upon appellant’s motion for change of venue.

This is a companion case to Edwards v. State, Tex.Crim.App., 427 S.W.2d 629 this day decided, and while separate trials were conducted, the evidence adduced at appellant’s trial was essentially the same as in the Edwards case. Both cases were argued…