Edwards v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment death.

The deceased Paul Walker and Betty Lou Edwards, wife of appellant, while seated in Walker’s car at eight o’clock at night, on a highway near Houston, were shot to death by the same person at the same time. This trial is for the killing of Walker. On the day following the homicide appellant surrendered to the sheriff of Harris County and, soon thereafter, went with a deputy sheriff to his brother’s house and there delivered the pistol which he had used. A slug taken from Walker’s body was established to have come from this pistol. A…