Pearson v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was given a life term in the penitentiary On a charge of murdering W. E. McConnell.

The record; contains 427 pages independent of the statement of facts, and it required 421 pages of typewritten matter to cover the evidence adduced on the trial. The evidence chronicles one of the saddest stories and tragedies of human life. The deceased was a practicing attorney at Mineral "Wells, where the homicide occurred. Appellant was at the head of a family consisting of his wife and several children, some of the children grown. Their domestic relations were and had…