Tatum v. State

Appellant was indicted and convicted in the First district of the circuit court of Jones County of the crime of murder and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

Appellant, Fred Tingle, the deceased, and others were engaged in gambling when an altercation arose between appellant and deceased during which hot and abusive words were passed between them. As a result of this altercation, the game, in which they were engaged broke up, the whole party leaving the house in which the gambling was going on about the same time. A few minutes after-wards…