Rollins v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge. —

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The trial was had in Bee County on a change of venue from Live Oak County.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Oscar W. Rollins by shooting him with a gun.

Deceased was appellant’s husband. He carried several thousand dollars life insurance, appellant being his beneficiary. On the morning of June 9, 1932, appellant appeared at the home of neighbors and advised them that deceased had shot himself. An investigation disclosed that…