Johnson v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The conviction is for the murder of Willie Wood Sides, Jr., a rookie police officer of the city of Dallas. The jury assessed the extreme penalty.

Traveling in a 1951 Oldsmobile, stolen by them in Oklahoma, appellant, his two nephews, J. W. Johnson and Marvin Johnson, and one Maxwell Billy Pomeroy, arrived in Dallas. In the car was a .22 rifle, a German Luger pistol, and a .32 automatic pistol, in addition to a third pistol which would not shoot.

Police Officer Dawson and the deceased, who was commonly known as Johnny Sides, while in uniform patrolling in a squad car, observed the…