JONES v. STATE

No. 28336.

290 S.W.2d 671 (1956)

Noil JONES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 30, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark E. Kramer, Robert C. Benavides, Dallas, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., George P. Blackburn, Lancaster Smith, and James K. Allen, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 75 years.

The homicide occurred while the parties were engaged in a dice game. Some months before the homicide the deceased had thrown a brick at the appellant, the impact breaking the appellant's neck and fracturing his skull. This had occurred when the deceased had discovered the appellant and the deceased's wife drinking beer together. The State's witnesses testified that the appellant fired...

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