Brice v. State

HARPER, Judge.

On a trial for murder, appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and his punishment assessed to eighteen years in the penitentiary.

In the first two bills of exception filed appellant contends that the court erred in not permitting E. L. Stewart and E. R. Caldwell to testify that “they had heard that appellant’s father, before his death, became insane; that something was mentally wrong with him, and that he had hung himself.” The court, in approving the bills, states: “The witnesses testified that they knew nothing about the mental condition of defendant’s father,…