Shirley v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant was tried under an indictment charging him with the murder of one Robert Thompson; conviction followed with punishment assessed at ten years confinement in the penitentiary.

Shirley and Thompson lived across the street from each other in the city of Fort Worth. Date in the afternoon of the. day upon which the homicide occurred Thompson left his home and went to a- little store located nearby, passed through the store to the rear and asked for some meat. Thompson had not been there more than a minute and was standing by the counter waiting for the butcher to cut…