Bowlin v. State

ON REHEARING.

Feoruary 21, 1923.

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

While the deceased was sitting in his home at night writing a letter, he was shot by the appellant through the window without warning. This unexplained would be murder. The explanation tendered is that appellant had obtained a letter written by his wife from which he believed that deceased had been guilty of insulting conduct to the wife of appellant; that because of this letter and belief, he sought the deceased and killed him upon the first sight of him; that the shots were fired under the influence of passion engendered by the letter…