Samuels v. State

In the circuit court of Panola county, the appellants, Walter Samuels and Bill Overall, were indicted and tried for murder, were convicted of manslaughter, and were sentenced to the state penitentiary for three years, and from this conviction and sentence this appeal was prosecuted.'

The appellants denied that they, or either of them,fired a shot at the time of the difficulty in which the deceased was killed, and they offered testimony tending to show that the fatal shot was fired by one Sam Griffin, but a statement of the facts, as testified to by the several witnesses, is unnecessary in…