Hawkins v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
Offense, murder; penalty, fifty years in the penitentiary.
Deceased was the father-in-law of appellant. Appellant was thirty-three years old and the deceased seventy-eight at the time of the tragedy. The two quarreled over a dog light. Deceased had come to the home of appellant the day of the tragedy carrying an “eye hoe,” which was shown to weigh some six or eight pounds with a handle about four feet long. Upon his arrival he demanded that two bulldogs that had been fighting be separated. A q.uarrel ensued. Appellant told deceased to go home, and the substance of his reply was “to make me.”…
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