Raglin v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

— Conviction is for manslaughter, with punishment assessed at five years in the penitentiary.

The parties are negroes. Deceased was appellant’s husband. He was killed with a single-barrelled shotgun, being shot one time. The shooting occurred about dark at a point some fifty yards from a small house in which appellant and deceased lived. No one witnessed the killing. Appellant admitted it and the officers found the gun in a ditch where she told them she had thrown it. Upon the trial she claimed she was running away from the house with the gun and deceased was pursuing with an…