STUBBLEFIELD v. STATE

No. 31507.

334 S.W.2d 150 (1960)

Mary Thomas STUBBLEFIELD, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied April 6, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. E. Martin, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., Neil McKay, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 15 years.

The deceased, Lilborn Tilson, and his wife operated a beer tavern in Houston.

At one A.M. on the night of March 20, 1954, Tilson closed his place of business and drove to his home with the money he took from his cash register. Some of the money was in bills, which he had in his pocket. The change was in a sack.

Shots from a small caliber gun were heard by neighbors and Tilson...

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