Whitlock v. State

The offense is murder. The punishment assessed is confinement in the State penitentiary for a period of forty years.

Appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain his conviction. This is a companion case to that of Brown v. State, No. 22,640, recently decided by this court. (Page 602 of this volume). The evidence adduced upon the trial of this case does not differ materially from that in the Brown case except that in the present case appellant testified that Ed Brown made the remark, "Let's get out and whip the s__s of b_____s" as they passed the two soldiers, while Brown,…