Edwards v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

— Appellant was convicted of manslaughter, his punishment being assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

This is the second appeal, the first being found reported in 60 Texas Crim. Rep., 323. The salient features of the case as shown by the facts are fairly well stated in the decision on former appeal.

This record shows that the court gave all the definitions of murder in the first and second degree. The first fourteen clauses' of the charge were devoted to the definition oí these two degrees of homicide. In the fifteenth section of the charge the court…