Case Name: EVANS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1935-03-06
Citations: 79 S.W.2d 1099
Docket Number: No. 17300
Parties: EVANS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 79
Pages: 1099–1099

Head Matter:
EVANS v. STATE.
No. 17300.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
March 6, 1935.
C. L. Dutton, of Richmond, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for tte State:

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Conviction for murder; punishment, ninety-nine years in tte penitentiary.
Appellant shot and killed E. B. Newsome. Three bullet wounds were found in the body. Deceased with Rossetta Newsome, his sister, and two others were in a car on a public road, when they had a flat and stopped to fix it. Deceased was working on the tire when appellant in another car driven by R. L. New-some, a brother of deceased, came up. Ros-setta had been living with appellant for a number of years. He tried to persuade and then to force Rossetta out of tte ear in which she was, and to go with him. She refused,' and finally threw a glass at him. He drew a pistol and fired at her, and then said he would kill them all, and began firing first at deceased and then at another of the party-named Meyers. From tte state's standpoint, deceased was doing nothing to give appellant any offense or cause him to shoot him. Appellant's reputation was shown by a number of witnesses to be bad. All parties were ne-groes.
Appellant told a lengthy story of his relations with Rosetta and her treatment of him, and also that deceased had taken money belonging to him, and of his-finding tte party in the road with the car, and of his approach and effort to argue with Rossetta. He said she threw a glass at him, and that deceased attacked him with an automobile pump, and called to the others to help him kill appellant, at which juncture appellant says Meyers ran up with a claw hammer, and that he (appellant) then began shooting in self-defense. Appellant offered no otter eyewitness to tte killing.
The testimony supports tte verdict and judgment, and we find no bills of exception in the record. Appellant's counsel reserved lengthy exceptions to the court's charge, but asked no special charges. We have carefully gone over the charge of the court and regard it as a clear and correct presentation of the law applicable to the facts, and are of opinion that same was not subject to any of the. exceptions mentioned. We see no good to come from setting out said exceptions, which are twenty-three in number and cover some nine pages of the transcript, and call in question practically every paragraph of the court's charge. A discussion of these exceptions would needlessly extend this opinion, and as far as we can see would be of no value whatever.
Finding no error in the record, the judgment will be affirmed.