Bolden v. State

Appellant was prosecuted and convicted of murder, and his punishment fixed at 20 years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

Appellant assigns many grounds in his motion for a new trial, but we are of the opinion but one of them presents reversible er*504ror. Deceased ran a store in the suburbs of Houston. Mail was left there for a number of his customers, and on the night of the homicide appellant went to the store to get his mail, and he then details the difficulty as follows: “X came in and spoke to him; he was in the rear part of the store behind the counter. X asked him for my mail, and he said,…