Saye v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of negligent homicide, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $1,000; and prosecutes this appeal.

The facts of the case briefly stated, show that in the little village of Melissa in Collin County, Texas, some parties had been for sometime creating a disturbance by shooting up the town, as it was termed. The constable was one George; he, being unable to detect the parties who were making a disturbance, applied to appellant, who was deputy sheriff and lived in a town some four or five miles distant in the same justice’s precinct, to come over to Melissa…