W. M. Banks v. State

LATTIMORE, JUDGE.

Conviction for murder; punishment, fifteen years in the penitentiary.

That the death of deceased resulted from a pistol shot fired by appellant, is not disputed, but in his unusually able brief appellant urges that the facts do not support a verdict of guilty of murder with malice. That a contention had arisen between appellant and deceased over certain land and the crops grown thereon, is not controverted; nor is the fact that appellant had placed on part of said land as his tenant one Martin, who was with appellant at the time of the shooting. Deceased had denied Martin the…