Brown v. State

OPINION

QUENTIN KEITH, Commissioner.

Appellant was charged by indictment with conspiracy to commit capital murder for the promise of remuneration, and the charging portion of the indictment is set out in the margin.1 He went to trial jointly with the co-conspirators mentioned in such indictment upon his plea of not guilty. The jury found him to be guilty as charged and the court assessed his punishment at confinement for eighteen years.2

During the afternoon of August 18, 1975, Edgar Earl Williams was murdered by one or more persons whom he encountered in his home in El Paso. He was shot by two…