Langley v. State

RICE, Judge.

Appellant was put on trial under an indictment charging him with the offense of murder in the first degree, for the killing of Bob Leach. He was convicted of the offense of manslaughter in the first degree and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of nine years. He duly filed a “motion for a new trial” which was overruled, with exception reserved. From the judgment of conviction rendered on the verdict of the jury, and from the judgment overruling his “motion for a new trial,” he brings this appeal.

We have given the evidence in the case the most…