Bridges v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the district court of Llano county of murder, and his punishment fixed at life imprisonment.

On October 23, 1922, appellant shot and killed Bart Cooper in the town of Llano. The killing took place at night in an alley. The State put on witnesses who testfied to a number of threats to kill made by appellant a few minutes before the homicide and extending back for a period of time; it was also shown that but two shots were fired, both from appellant’s pistol; that one bullet entered the body of deceased about the navel and ranged downward and to the…