OPINION
GREEN, Commissioner.
In a trial before a jury, appellant was convicted of murder. The jury assessed the punishment at ninety-nine years.
The State's evidence reflects that on June 10, 1974, appellant purchased a .22 automatic pistol, went to the Ramada Inn in Odessa, had a brief conversation with his wife at a swimming pool, and as she turned from him and started to leave, shot her eight times. Her death resulted from these wounds.
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