Foster v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Murder is the offense; the punishment, ten years in the State penitentiary.

Appellant and deceased were tenant farmers of the same landlord. The land assigned to each was of one general tract. *617There was no definite, fixed or marked boundary line between the tracts to be cultivated by them. Each planted and cultivated, upon the tract asssigned to him, the same kind of crop, being that of feed known as “hygeria.”

When time came to gather the crop, a difficulty arose between them as to where the boundary between the tracts was located. According to the witnesses for the State, it…