Stephens v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for 35 years.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Charles Peters by shooting him with a gun.

Sometime in 1930 W. L. Thomas had sold a place in Wharton County to August Kobsell. In September, 1932, finding that he would not be able to pay for the place, Kobsell turned it back to Thomas, but claimed that he was entitled to remain on the place until the first of January. Thomas then negotiated the sale of the property to appellant, who was to rebuild…