Wallace v. State

MORROW, Judge.

Appellant, under indictment for the murder of John Massey, was convicted of manslaughter.

His father, J. H. Wallace, and his brother, T. D. Wallace, were charged with the same offense under separate indictments. The father, J. H. Wallace, a man about sixty-five or seventy years of age, was indebted to the father of deceased, who was a merchant. The account was some seven or eight dollars. J. H. Wallace and a witness by the name of McGinnis were on the street in front of a saloon owned by a witness by the name of Booth, and were engaged in a conversation about their own business…