Shelton v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted for seriously threatening to take the life of a human being, to wit, Will Cockrell, his punishment being assessed at a fine of $100.

The State’s testimony in substance is, that appellant, in the night of the 6th of July, 1907, near the Methodist Church, in Boon’s Bend neighborhood, in Wharton County, was sitting on a bridge over a creek between the Methodist and Sanctified churches; that there is a road running from the “Sanctified church” across said creek and in front of the "Methodist church;” that defendant was sitting on the bridge and had…