Banks v. State

Appellant- was convicted in the district court of Galveston county of *963manslaughter, and her punishment fixed at four years in the penitentiary.

The parties to this hilling were both negro women between whom there appears from the record to have been trouble prior to the fatal difficulty. According to the state’s testimony, on the night charged, appellant came to the immediate neighborhood of where deceased made her home, and walked up and down for quite a while, awaiting the coming of deceased; appellant having a pistol in her hand wrapped in a towel. When deceased appeared, a wordy war ensued…