Cotton v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

— Offense, assault to murder; penalty, fifteen years in the penitentiary.

Appellant and the injured party, Liston Scroggins, were brothers-in-law, appellant having married a half-sister of Scroggins. The injured party was a boy about seventeen years old. Evidence was introduced tending to prove the State’s theory that appellant induced prosecuting witness to take out a policy of $6000.00 insurance with an indemnity clause entitling the beneficiary to $12,000.00 in case of accidental death and naming the wife of appellant as beneficiary; and that thereafter witness was shot…