May v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Jack Sturdivant by shooting him with a gun.

Harry Rutherford, J. B. Rutherford and deceased were last seen alive in the town of Handley about dusk on the evening of July 8, 1933. When last seen they were in an automobile traveling in the direction of the homes of appellant and one O. D. Stevens, which were about three and one-half miles from the town of Handley. A private lane led to the homes of appellant and Stevens, Stevens’ home…