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MARTIN v. STATE

No. 25655.

248 S.W.2d 126 (1952)

MARTIN v. STATE

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied April 23, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. A. Turner, Nat H. Davis, J. Robert Liles, Conroe, Bell, Dyche & Bell, by Spurgeon E. Bell, Houston, for appellant.

George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, twenty years.

Appellant shot and killed deceased upon entering a tavern at Conroe on April 28, 1951. The witnesses for the State, present on the occasion, testified that appellant came in the place and found deceased sitting at a table with appellant's former wife, whereupon he drew a pistol and fired several times. Appellant and his witnesses testified that...

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