Jones v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment fixed at death; hence this appeal. The facts show that appellant at the time of the alleged homicide was in the employ of the deceased, who kept a butcher-shop; that his duties were to wait about the market and drive the delivery wagon, and thus he became well acquainted with the habits of deceased. He lived or stayed with a woman about a block and a half from deceased’s place of business. On the night in question appellant absented himself from the place where he lived from about 8 to 9 :30 o’clock.…