Tritthart v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, upon a charge of murder in the district court of Craig county, was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and sentenced to serve a term of seven years in the state penitentiary. Briefly stated, we gather from the record the facts about as follows:

The defendant and the deceased, Charley Flanders, lived near each other, and each owned some land under the same pasture fence, and to some extent each was engaged in stock raising. A state of ill will had existed between them which appears to have had its beginning in the fact that…