Farrar v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for the offense of murder with malice, and his punishment was assessed at death.

The state’s testimony shows that Officer Tucker and Fritz Engelking, a treasury department employee, drove to George’s Food Store between 7 and 8 P.M. and, as their automobile stopped, appellant, who was standing in front of the store, began firing a pistol at them. Officer Tucker returned the fire. Appellant ran back of the store and barricaded himself behind a Buick automobile parked about forty feet from the building and headed in the opposite direction. Appellant, while…