Richards v. State

BAMSEY, Judge.

Appellant, on the 15th day of August, 1906, shot and killed W. T. McCall in Austin, Texas. Both appellant and deceased were negro school teachers, appellant living in Matagorda and deceased in Austin. They had known each other quite intimately some years before, and up to within a short time of the killing were shown to have been quite friendly. The motive assigned for the killing by appellant, and the only one having much, if any, support in the evidence, was that something like a week before, appellant's wife, Minnie, had informed him of an assault on her by the deceased while…