Pearson v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

Conviction is for murder without malice; punishment, four years in the penitentiary.

Appellant was charged with the unlawful killing of one Gladys Crawford. His whole defense was that of a mistake in identity in that he thought and believed that he was shooting at and killing a negro woman whom he claimed to be a concubine of his father, who was some 75 or 76 years of age at the time. Appellant contended that said negro woman had been living with his father for some time prior to the killing. The appellant himself testified to the facts touching the killing substantially as…