Combs v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

— The offense is murder; punishment ^ fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of ten years.

Sometime antecedent to the homicide, the appellant resided upon the farm belonging to the deceased and upon which he also lived. Appellant had two daughters, namely: Mrs. Ruth Shirley and Pay Crabb. Mrs. Shirley, who resided, in JB’ort "Worth, made a visit to her father, and whne there, attended a gathering of young people at the home of a neighbor by the name or dones, whose residence was about three and one-hair miles distant from that at which her father resided.…