Godwin v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for twenty-five years; hence this appeal.

The homicide appears to have taken place over a game of cards. The game was made up between four young men some time in the morning of August 10, 1897. The names of the parties were Ike Godwin (the defendant), Sam Campbell (the deceased), Ned Merchant, and Eugene- Irons1. These parties retired to a place in the woods and played a game of freeze-out poker. The defendant put up his watch as his stake, the deceased a…