Fawcett v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the murder with malice of his wife, Velma Louise Fawcett, and awarded a term of ten years in the penitentiary.

Appellant, a man of 28 years of age and the father of three children by a former wife, married the deceased, then fifteen years old, and lived with her while on shore, he being a sailor. After purchasing a small tract of land near Vidor in Orange County, appellant moved his wife and three children thereto. On the day on which the deceased was shot, appellant came into dock on his ship and visited his grandmother, Mrs. Elida Fawcett, in…