Stoker v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

The conviction is for murder and the punishment assessed at four years in the penitentiary.

The testimony showed that about the 26th day of December, 1929, Chesley Ollison was killed on a public road in Harrison county, Texas, about two miles north of Harlingen, near the residence of Sam Stoker. There had been a party and Christmas tree that night at the Sam Stoker residence attended by a large number of negroes. The appellant and the deceased were both negroes. As the party was breaking up and the crowd dispersing, a fight or some kind of commotion took place in the road some…