Mohler v. State

The offense is murder; punishment fixed at death. The evidence was circumstantial. Appellant and deceased left Cisco late in the evening of August 10, 1922, the deceased stating that he was going to take a man to De Leon. The parties were seen together in the car of the deceased at Carbon, which is in Eastland county, and the deceased there inquired the way to De Leon. Gorman, also in Eastland county, was some miles distant from Carbon. The parties left Carbon after sundown. It was prac-ticaEy dark. The conditions were such that it would take from one to two hours to drive from Carbon to…