LEE v. STATE

No. 27796.

286 S.W.2d 633 (1956)

Elsie Mae LEE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 11, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burt Barr, James H. Martin, Robert C. Benavides, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Crim. Dist. Atty., Fred Bruner, Harvey Lindsay, Jerry Shivers, and Charles S. Potts, Asst. Crim. Dist. Attys., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder with malice; the punishment, 15 years in the penitentiary.

The state's testimony shows that appellant and the deceased were married on November 22, 1952, and that soon thereafter he began practicing the profession of dentistry in Dallas.

It was shown that appellant had threatened six or seven times to kill the deceased; that appellant had purchased a .22 automatic pistol on May 1, 1953; and that a...

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