Lane v. State

PREHDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and his punishment assessed at ten years in the penitentiary.

We think it unnecessary to give any extended statement of the evidence. The preponderance of it, and that by disinterested witnesses, shows that appellant waylaid and assassinated deceased. Appellant claims self-defense and defense because of threats by deceased to kill him, claiming that deceased was undertaking at the time to execute his threats. Both of these matters were fully and completely submitted in his favor in every way that the evidence…