Beard v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

The offense is murder. The punishment assessed is death.

Appellant was indicted by the grand jury of Taylor County for the offense of murder alleged to have been committed in said county on the 12th day of February, 1942. The venue of the ■case was changed to Fisher County on application of appellant where, on the 4th day of June, appellant was put upon trial, which resulted in his conviction as above stated.

It appears from the record that at the time of the commission of the alleged offense appellant was confined in the Taylor County jail at Abilene by reason of having been…