Trimble v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— Conviction for murder; punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

This killing took place very early in the morning of November 27th. During the night preceding, appellant with one Opp *238and several others had been engaged in driving out of what is called the Brown pasture and into that of deceased, some eighteen hundred head of sheep and goats belonging to deceased, which he was pasturing in said pasture theretofore leased by him from Opp. The written lease had expired September 1st, of the same year, but the evidence supports the conclusion that Opp had given to deceased a…