Lawrence v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

— Offense, murder; penalty, fifty years.

Antecedent ill feelings existed between appellant and deceased, Jack Kimbell, due to the alleged intimate relations existing between appellant and the wife of deceased. On the day of the tragedy a difficulty ensued between deceased and his two brothers on one side and appellant on the other in which appellant was severely beaten and bruised. Going immediately to his place of business a short distance away after this difficulty, appellant returned at once with a rifle and shot and killed deceased.

Appellant claims he was struck by deceased…