Condron v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was indicted for murder alleged to have been committed in Throckmorton County. Upon a change of venue he was tried at Haskell County, Texas, found guilty of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at thirty years confinement in the State penitentiary.

On the first day of last October appellant was at Overcash’s feed store in Throckmorton, and spent the afternoon at the store and wagon yard. He and Overcash, it appears, were” drinking. During the afternoon appellant and Charlie Jones had an altercation, and appellant got a pistol out of a coat hanging on…