FISHBECK v. STATE

No. 24351.

225 S.W.2d 854 (1948)

FISHBECK v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 18, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. W. Ragsdale, Victoria, P. P. Putney, Victoria, for appellant.

Ernest S. Goens, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was charged by indictment with the unlawful killing of Jacob John Fishbeck, her husband; and upon her conviction, she was awarded a penalty of ten years in the penitentiary, and she appeals.

It was shown by the State's testimony that the deceased and some of his friends spent a portion of the night previous to his death in a coon hunt in the field of a neighbor; that a case of beer was consumed by such hunters; but they caught no coons...

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