Slaughter v. State

The appeal is from a conviction for murder with a penalty of three years in the penitentiary.

Appellant is alleged to have killed Frank Lewis on the 10th day of September, 1944, by cutting him with a knife. The case was tried in 1946 in Limestone County, where the homicide took place. The result of that trial is not disclosed by the record, but it is shown that a trial was had and two of the witnesses who testified for the State in that case were not present at the trial in Navarro County. Their testimony on the former trial was reproduced, under the rules.

The prosecution presented a knife…