Hext v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of fifty years.

The State relied upon circumstantial evidence alone to support its theory that the appellant poisoned his father, Pete Hext. In substance, the evidence leading to that conclusion is this: Appellant had been an inmate of his father’s house, but had left it and gone to the home • of a neighbor some two weeks antecedent to the death of Pete Hext. Within the interval he had returned to the home of his father but one time, which embraced a few moments, five or ten, during…