Douglass v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. R I. Munroe. Appeal from a conviction of manslaughter; penalty, three years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment assessed at three years confinement in the penitentiary.
Bill of exceptions Ho. 5 shows the following: That after it had been shown by the testimony that the homicide under investigation occurred on the railroad track back of Horace' Hooper’s residence, and that from the place of the killing to Horace Hooper’s1 back door in his back yard was about 85 yards, and after the said Horace Hooper had testified in this case that he heard the shots- fired, and that about two or three minutes thereafter the defendant came back to…
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