King v. State

BAKER, Judge.

The appellant was convicted in the District Court of Nueces County for the offense of manslaughter, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

It appears from the record that the appellant was charged by indictment with murdering one J. J. Ellerd, in Willacy County, on the 18th day of July, 1925, by shooting him with a gun, and that the court, of his own motion, changed the venue from. Willacy County to Nueces County. The record discloses that the appellant and his wife had raised a large family of children, consisting principally of boys, most…