Heed v. State

A brief summary of the evidence will show the defendant, who is about 20 years of age, killed Oliver Brown on the 9th of March, 1912. Brown was also a young man about 25 or 26 years of age. Appellant was the owner of a dog which was killed in the pasture belonging to the father of deceased. In February, before the killing in March, defendant and the elder Brown were at a country schoolhouse one Sunday. Defendant made inquiry of the elder Brown as to who killed his dog, and made the statement, while talking with him, that he could whip whoever killed his dog, and mentioned the name of deceased…