MacKey v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction was for murder; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The sufficiency of the evidence, which is not challenged, shows that the appellant shot Lee Roy Myrick with a pistol in. a motel room where the appellant, the deceased and others were having a drinking party. Myrick’s death was almost instantaneous. The appellant’s defense of an accidental shooting was submitted to the jury and resolved against him by its verdict.

The appellant’s first ground of error alleges that the district attorney failed to produce the murder weapon prior to trial for inspection by…