BARNES v. STATE

No. 26926.

266 S.W.2d 861 (1954)

BARNES v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 14, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No attorney on appeal, for appellant.

William H. Scott, Dist. Atty., King C. Haynie, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, Wesley Dice, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.


GRAVES, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was indicted by the grand jury of Harris County for the unlawful killing of Ella Faye Barnes "by shooting her with a gun, and by stabbing her with a knife, and by hitting and striking her with a piece of wood, and by drowning her by placing the said Ella Faye Barnes in a bathtub and by then and there causing water to run into the said bathtub, whereby water was taken into the lungs of the said Ella Faye Barnes." Upon conviction,...

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