Hoover v. State

MORROW, Judge.

The appeal is from a sentence of confinement in the penitentiary for six years for the offense of murder. The deceased was a supervisor of the construction of a “tank farm” in one of the oil districts, the construction work being done by employees of independent contractors. Appellant and his father had been such employees, and on Saturday preceding the homicide on Tuesday, an altercation took place on the premises. In this altercation insulting épithéts were exchanged between the deceased and the appellant; some blows were struck, the deceased obtaining and exhibiting a pistol…