Jernigan v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

— The offense is manslaughter; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The offense was committed prior to the enactment of the statute repealing the law of manslaughter and on the present trial a charge covering manslaughter was submitted to the jury.

The testimony of the state tended to show that appellant killed the deceased without provocation. Appellant testified that deceased came to his house at night, threatened him and invited him outside. He said that he secured a shot gun and opened the door and that seeing deceased with a pistol in his hand as…