Case ID: sw2d_180/html/0443-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

COOPER v. STATE.
    No. 22863.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    May 17, 1944.
    Irwin & Irwin, of Dallas, for appellant.
    Ernest S. Goens, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

Conyiction is for murder, punishment six years in the penitentiary. No bills of exception are brought forward; neither are there found any objections to the court’s instructions.

Appellant and his wife had separated. He attributed this to deceased’s attention to the wife, or at least held deceased responsible for the failure to effect a reconciliation. Appellant claimed to have acted in self-defense in the killing. Unfortunately for appellant eyewitnesses gave an entirely different account of the trouble. The jury settled the question against appellant. The case calls for no recital of the facts.

The judgment is affirmed.