HOLMES v. STATE

No. 38801.

398 S.W.2d 121 (1966)

Jerry HOLMES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 19, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harkness, Friedman & Kusin, by Sherman A. Kusin, Texarkana, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, 15 years.

Sentence was pronounced and notice of appeal given on May 8, 1965.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged. The facts are summarized in the appellant's brief as follows: "Witnesses for the State testified that the Defendant and the Deceased, Lewis Meadows, had been arguing and that Defendant had gone home and gotten his shotgun and returned to the place of the argument and shot...

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