White v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for murder; the indictment alleging that appellant killed the deceased “by strangling him with a wire;” the punishment was assessed at death.

Mrs. Lambert Berkman, daughter of the deceased, testified that the appellant and his brother, Calvin White, came to the farm home where she and her husband lived about 1 P.M., July 21,1955, in a blue-colored pickup; that appellant asked about her father and brother and where they were living, and she told *340him; that he further asked if her brother had married and if they were “still batching-,” and she told him “yes” (her…