Wheeler v. State

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

No contention is made as to the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict.

One bill of exception is presented which complains of the giving of Paragraph VIII of the court’s charge instructing the jury substantially in the terms of Art. 1257a, Vernon’s Ann. P.C., which article reads as follows:

“In all prosecutions for felonious homicide the state or the defendant shall be permitted to offer testimony as to all relevant facts and circumstances surrounding the killing and the previous relationship existing between the…