Milam v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Appellant was indicted for the murder of Thad Crawford and was convicted of aggravated assault, his punishment being assessed at a fine of $150 and sixty days’ confinement in'the county jail.

Appellant was a cement contractor and deceased was working for him on the Callan Ranch. A'11 the parties were drinking. " Appellant was a man about sixty-five years old, afflicted with heart trouble, and deceased was a young man, twenty-eight or thirty years old, and was a strong man, weighing about 160 pounds. The testimony of all the eye-witnesses indicated that deceased in a drunken…