Anderson v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is murder; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for four years.

It is charged in the indictment, in substance, that appellant, with malice aforethought, killed George Pleasant by shooting him with a pistol.

It was the theory of the State, given support in the evidence, that appellant sought deceased and killed him without provocation. Appellant testified deceased had alienated his wife’s affections. It was his version that on the occasion of the homicide deceased and Sid Chapman attacked him; that believing that his life was in danger, he killed deceased.

I…