Franks v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for murder; punishment, being 5 years in the penitentiary.

The name of the deceased was John D. Winters. Both he and appellant were negroes as also were all the fact witnesses save the officers. The killing occurred at Vernon, Wilbarger County, on the night of October 27, 1932, but the beginning of trouble and ill-feeling between appellant and deceased occurred in Waco, McLennan County. The statement of facts covers 100 closely typewritten pages. We regard it as unnecessary to set out the facts at great length. So far as the record reveals, appellant and deceased…