Bell v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for four years.

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed Willie Oliphant by shooting him with a pistol.

Lillie Bell, a witness for the State, testified that on the night of the homicide she and deceased started to the home of Hawk; that deceased had called for her at her brother’s home where she had moved after leaving the home of the appellant; that on the way to Hawk’s house she and deceased were overtaken by appellant, who called upon deceased to…