Hunter v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

Ollie Van Dorn, the deceased, and his father were in a wagon. Appellant and his father, Tom Hunter, met the Van Dorns in the road, and a difficulty arose in which the Hunters ' killed deceased and his father.

Bill of exceptions Ho. 1 shows that Lorena Van Dorn was permitted to testify that she was picking cotton in her father’s field on the evening of the difficulty and heard the shots. That she was about one hundred yards from the scene of the…