Burnett v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

The punishment assessed was thirty years in the penitentiary for murder in the second degree. A sufficient statement of the evidence shows that defendant and deceased had a rather heated quarrel near the hardware store of Thompson & Abernathy, in the town of Bonham. They separated at a distance of about forty-five feet from the store, defendant going east and then north, and deceased going west to the store. Deceased left appellant with the avowed intention of getting a gun to be used on defendant, and with this purpose in mind went to Abernathy, who was at the time…