MOON v. STATE

No. 30936.

331 S.W.2d 312 (1959)

Nearvel MOON, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 27, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon Lusk, Houston, King C. Haynie, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Thomas D. White and Frank Briscoe, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

The evidence reflects without conflict that the appellant came upon two men and a boy who were target shooting in a rural section of Harris County and asked permission to fire their pistol. When he was given the pistol, he turned it on the three and marched them to a nearby woods where he shot and killed all of them after having taken their money. Following this, appellant masked himself...

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