Morse v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, twenty years in the penitentiary.

Appellant and his wife owned and the wife operated the Caprock Inn, a beer tavern located in the village of Notrees, in Ector County. Appellant was a welder by trade and, when not engaged at that trade, assisted his wife in the operation of the tavern.

Sunday night, March 28, 1948, Priddy (the deceased), together with Mann, Baker, and Miss Mize, left Colorado City in Mann’s car to take Baker to Notrees, where he was employed. They arrived at Notrees about 9:30 or 10 o’clock and stopped at a liquor store.…