SCARBOROUGH v. STATE

No. 32961.

344 S.W.2d 886 (1961)

Ike Newman SCARBOROUGH, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 22, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Tessmer, Fred Bruner, B. M. Bates, Dallas, C. S. Farmer, Waco, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Criminal Dist. Atty., James K. Allen, First Asst. Dist. Atty., Wm. F. Alexander, Frank Watts, Robert Power, Phil Burleson, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 50 years.

The evidence was undisputed that, on March 23, 1960, the date alleged in the indictment, the appellant killed the deceased, Mildred Elizabeth Ott, by shooting her with a pistol.

The appellant, a single man thirty-one years of age, lived with his mother in the City of Dallas. The deceased, thirty-two years of age and also single, lived in the city. Appellant and the deceased first...

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