JOHNSON v. STATE

No. 29064.

305 S.W.2d 606 (1957)

Robert Bennett JOHNSON, Jr., Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 26, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Meredith, Adams & Sheppard, Longview, for appellant.

Ralph Prince, Criminal Dist. Atty., Paul J. McClung, and James Ross, Asst. Criminal Dist. Attys., Longview, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for murder without malice; the punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

The state's testimony shows that shortly before the killing, loud talk and cursing was heard at the back of appellant's house; that appellant, while standing in the back door, was heard several times trying to get the deceased to take something back, but the deceased was heard to say "he wouldn't" and was telling the appellant that appellant...

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