Compton v. State

The offense is manslaughter and the punishment is four years in the penitentiary.

The indictment charged that the appellant killed the deceased in Floyd County, Texas, on or about the 4th day of October, 1922, by striking him with an axe. The record discloses that the difficulty occurred in Floyd County and that the lick was struck in said county but that the deceased died in Lubbock County two days after he was struck and that the lick struck by the appellant was the cause of the death of the deceased. Under this state of facts, appellant very earnestly contends in a very able brief that as…