King v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

Several of those present at one of Austin’s East Sixth Street taverns testified that appellant had been seated at a rear booth thereof for some time on the morning of the homicide; that the deceased, the appellant’s wife, had come into the tavern and occupied a booth nearer the front, alone. They further testified that after the passage of approximately an hour, during which time deceased and appellant did not speak to each other, appellant left the tavern. The same witnesses related that shortly thereafter appellant re-entered the…