Menefee v. State

HEHDERSOH, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of ten years; hence this appeal. •

The circumstances of the killing show that appellant claimed that deceased (George Brown) and Bill Berry (who were negroes) had threatened his life and that of his mother; and that he went to see them in regard to it, and they made some demonstration as if to attack him, and he shot both of them, wounding Bill Berry and killing George Brown. The State’s theory was that he had formed a grudge against Brown and Berry…