Kent v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for forty years.

It was charged in the indictment that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed R. L. Ensor by shooting him with a gun.

The body of deceased was found lying by his automobile near a gate. An examination of the ground near the body disclosed some tracks where some small saplings had been cut down. At the place where the tracks were discovered some twigs had been broken or twisted off. The ground showed that some one had knelt at the place where the twigs were broken. Tracks led away from…