FARMER v. STATE

No. 25945.

255 S.W.2d 864 (1952)

FARMER v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied February 25, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifford W. Brown and Lawrence Melcher, Lubbock, Kenneth Bain, Floydada, for appellant.

Travis D. Shelton, Dist. Atty., Lubbock, George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The appellant and the deceased had led a short but turbulent marital life. The deceased left the accused; the appellant bought a pistol, and some few days later went to the cafe where the deceased was working. There, he shot her several times and then turned the pistol on himself.

The only defense offered was that the accused had "blacked-out" at the time of the shooting and remembered...

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