Delaney v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

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

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed J. E. Purgasen by shooting him with a pistol.

Deceased was foreman of the Worth Mills, and, as an employee, appellant was under deceased’s supervision. Some time-before the homicide deceased had discharged appellant; it being-appellant’s version that he had refused to return to deceased an 'amount of money he had received in a transaction involving-the “padding” of the payrolls. Appellant…