Ballard v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of twenty-five years.

Appellant shot and killed Frank Bates. The homicide occurred in daytime in Day’s hardware store in the town of Hamlin. Appellant was a plumber, and had his shop in the second story of the building oc cupied by the hardware store mentioned. His place might be reached either by entering the back door of the hardware store and going up the stairway at the rear of the building, or by entering the front door and walking back to the stairway mentioned.

Appellant and…