TAYLOR v. STATE

No. 28014.

288 S.W.2d 516 (1956)

Duren TAYLOR, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 22, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. H. Buchanan, Longview, for appellant.

Ralph Prince, Criminal Dist. Atty., Gladewater, Paul J. McClung and Francis W. Faris, Jr., Asst. Criminal Dist. Attys., Longview, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 5 years.

The appellant was the proprietor of a beer establishment on the night charged in the indictment and, as such, had separated the deceased and another of his patrons who got into an argument over a woman. The deceased resented the appellant's intervention and addressed some opprobrious epithets toward the appellant, who countered by commanding the deceased to go home. The deceased started...

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