Watson v. State

273 S.W.2d 879 (1954)

Agnes WATSON, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 26986.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 2, 1954.

On Rehearing October 27, 1954.

Rehearing Denied December 1, 1954.

Harkness & Friedman, by Harry B. Friedman, Texarkana, for appellant.

Wesley Dice, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, life imprisonment.

We are confronted at the outset with a motion to strike the court's bill of exception No. 1, which motion is supported by affidavits. From these we learn that on February 16 appellant presented 50 formal bills…