Upchurch v. State

Appellant, Floyd Upchurch, was convicted in the district court of Washington -county of the crime of manslaughter in the first degree and his punishment assessed at 12 years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary.

The information in substance charged that in said county on or about the 8th day of February, 1935, Floyd Upchurch, the defendant, did willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously malte an assault upon one Harry Payne with a club about three inches in diameter and two feet long, with the premeditated design to effect the death of said Payne, and did then and there strike and beat the head…