Haynes v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder and allotted ten years confinement in the penitentiary.

It is unnecessary to state with any detail the testimony. The State’s contention was that appellant was guilty of murder in killing Elias Williams. There seems to have been no previous trouble between them. Appellant was at a social gathering when the shooting occurred, and there is testimony in the record showing that he was very drunk, and was misbehaving in his maudlin condition, and one or two parties undertook to carry him away from the place. He became a little obstrep1…