Ex Parte W.L. Crawford

HAWKINS, Judge.

— This is an appeal from an order of the judge of Criminal District Court No. 2 of Dallas County, denying relator bail.

On the morning of September 11, 1924, as Paul M. O’Day was approaching the elevator in the building where his office was located relator called his name, and as O’Day turned towards him in response to the call relator shot him several times with a pump shot gun. Immediately after the shooting relator said, “You can’t insult my mother.”

One of the propositions urged here is that the evidence raised the issue of manslaughter predicated on an insult to a female…