Anderson v. State

Offense, murder; penalty, ninety-nine years.

Appellant is a negro; the deceased was a white man. The testimony from the State's witnesses shows that appellant at one time worked for deceased and left owing him over a hundred dollars. Thereafter and about two years prior to the homicide, deceased with his brother-in-law, Walter Dunn, caught the appellant in Terrell and took him out in the country and whipped him with a rope. After that time appellant left that vicinity and was not seen by the deceased any more until the day of the homicide. Deceased and his brother-in-law, Dunn, lived a short…