EDWARDS v. STATE

No. 25145.

239 S.W.2d 618 (1951)

EDWARDS v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

On Motion for Rehearing April 18, 1951.

Rehearing Denied June 6, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Heidingsfelder, Jr., Houston, for appellant.

A. C. Winborn, Criminal Dist. Atty., Spurgeon E. Bell, Sp. Pros., Houston, George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment death.

The deceased Paul Walker and Betty Lou Edwards, wife of appellant, while seated in Walker's car at 8 o'clock at night, on a highway near Houston, were shot to death by the same person at the same time. This trial is for the killing of Walker. On the day following the homicide appellant surrendered to the Sheriff of Harris County and, soon thereafter, went with a deputy sheriff to his brother's house...

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