Board v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

The offense; murder, the punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The killing took place on a certain Sunday night at or near a negro church. A short time before the killing actually occurred, a difficulty had arisen between the appellant and a negro girl by the name of Cora Towles, who was a niece of the deceased, and because of said difficulty the said Cora Towles struck the defendant with a knife, inflicting some injuries to his hand and wrist. There was some evidence to show that in this difficulty between the appellant and Cora Towles the deceased and another negro man by…