Spicer v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for murder; punishment, eight years in the penitentiary.

Appellant has a bill of exception complaining of the refusal of the court to submit to the jury a charge presenting the theory that if the jury believed that deceased or those in attendance upon him failed to tie up the wound, or prevent the flow of blood, or that they delayed procuring medical attention, or delayed doing other things that the circumstances demanded, in order to prevent death, and but for these failures on their part the deceased would not have died, and that such failures constituted gross…