Youngblood v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

The offense, murder; the punishment, twenty-five years in the penitentiary.

The testimony showed that the appellant and his wife lived in and operated a small hotel in Fort Worth at the time of the homicide, and that the deceased boarded at said hotel. The witness Earl Sanders testified for the state to the effect that on the night of the homicide appellant and his wife engaged in an argument over the fact that appellant’s wife wanted to go to a dance, whereupon the deceased appeared and appellant asked him for a match, and deceased replied that he did not have a match, but…