Gilliam v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Defendant is under conviction for the murder of O. F. Crone. Punishment is twenty years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

Defendant and deceased lived upon land which belonged to a Mr. Horn. Deceased as Horn’s agent had rented to defendant the land worked by him. The killing occurred on the ■ morning of September 20th at defendant’s home. Friction had arisen between the parties. Some time before the killing two children of deceased had gone to defendant’s house and had been followed by a dog which bit one of the defendant’s children, however, not injuring it to any extent.…