BEASLEY v. STATE

No. 33378.

346 S.W.2d 123 (1961)

Dock BEASLEY, alias Jimmy Beasley, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

May 3, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Spinn, Brenham, for appellant.

James D. Kershaw, Dist. Atty., Bastrop, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is murder; the punishment, fifty years.

The evidence was undisputed that appellant killed the deceased, who was his father-in-law by shooting him with a gun. The homicide occurred on a Saturday afternoon at the home of the deceased at Old Washington in Washington County. The proof shows that, on the afternoon prior to the day of the killing, appellant and his wife came to the deceased's home to visit their four-year old daughter...

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