Haley v. State

MORROW, Judge.

This conviction is for murder, the punishment being fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for twenty years.

The State’s theory is that the deceased was assassinated. The evidence relied upon by the State is wholly circumstantial. The deceased resided in the country, and early in the morning a neighbor went to his house-and found his body in his yard near the door of his garage. The body was cold and stiff, and apparently the deceased had been dead six or eight hours. There were a number of buck-shot wounds in his face and head. As a motive for the homicide the State advanced…