Craig v. State

MCDONALD, Judge.

Murder with malice is the offense, with punishment assessed at thirty years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

At the January term, 1958, appellant was indicted by the Bastrop County grand jury for the offense of murder with malice aforethought upon the person of his wife, Grace Craig, on August 25, 1957. He was first tried in Bastrop County in May, 1958, but the trial resulted in a hung jury.

Upon a change of venue, the trial was transferred to Fayette County, where appellant was tried in April, 1959, and found guilty, with punishment assessed at fifty years in the penitentiary.…