Isom v. State

RICE, Judge.

Appellant, a young man some twenty-one or twenty-two years of age, was tried under an indictment charging him with the offense of murder in the second degree; was convicted of the offense of manslaughter in the first degree; and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of five years.

It was alleged, and shown on the trial without dispute, that he killed one Wayne Bryant — a young man of approximately his same age — by stabbing him with a knife. His pleas were, in substance, that he was not guilty because the killing was done in self-defense, or, that he…