Rasberry v. State

MORROW, Judge.

The appeal is from a conviction for the murder of Ethel Pool. The punishment is fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of ninety-nine years.

The appellant resided on a farm rented from a neighbor, a relative of the deceased. His family consisted of a wife and several ■children, including a grown son and one about seventeen years of Age. Hogs belonging to Tom Pool, a married son of deceased, and to Dixie Pool, her husband, depredated upon the property of the appellant. The law prohibiting hogs from running at large appears to have been in force in the community, but…