Goss v. State

BAKER, Judge.

The appellant was convicted for the offense of murder, and his punishment assessed at ten years in the penitentiary.

Briefly stated, the record discloses that on the 14th day of September, 1925, the appellant, while driving in his automobile in company with his wife, his small son, a Mr. Robinson and a Mr. Roach, going from Bonham to Dodd City, overtook and passed, on the public highway, a truck in which J. H. Wilson, Wm. Melton, Glenwood Culbeth and Claude Rainey, the deceased, were riding. The deceased, Claude Rainey, was standing on the running board of the truck, and after the…