Jacobs v. State

RICE,. Judge.

Appellant killed Pete Jackson by shooting him' with a pistol.

He was tried under an indictment charging him with the offense of murder in the first degree; was convicted of the offense of manslaughter in the first degree; and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of ten years.

The undisputed testimony was that appellant shot said Jackson twice with a pistol at the roadside store of Eugene Brown, in the course of a conversation, and in the presence of said Brown. And that in said conversation decedent told appellant that he, appellant, “swore a lie on…