Terrell v. State

DAVIDSOH, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was charged with murder and convicted of manslaughter.

Preliminary to discussing the questions involved, a brief statement of the facts may be summed up as follows: The deceased, James Kennedy, and appellant’s father, William Terrell, and appellant, a boy about 17 years of age, lived in the same neighborhood, appellant living with his father. Deceased was constable in that particular neighborhood. The evidence is further to the effect that the parties had been friendly. On the day of and preceding the homicide all of the parties had been to the town of…