Smith v. State

Krueger, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment is confinement in the State Penitentiary for life.

The record shows that on or about the 20th day of April, 1937, appellant took a sister of the deceased with him to Corpus Christi, where a mock marriage ceremony was performed. Thereafter they lived together as man and wife until a short time prior to the homicide. On the 4th day of June he became angry at her, chained her to a bed and whipped her.

A few days later she went home to her parents and told them and also her brother how appellant had abused and mistreated her. It seems that during…