Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas June 12, 1935, No. 17616. (Carpenter v. State)

lead-opinion

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

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

It was charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed A. B. Hill by shooting him with a gun.

Deceased, who was about 60 years of age, was the father-in-law of appellant.