Newman v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

This conviction was for manslaughter with the punishment assessed at four years in the penitentiary.

The killing occurred at a country dance. Appellant was one of the musicians at the dance. During an interlude he left the house to attend a call of nature. Returning he came upon two boys in a friendly scuffle. ITe became mixed up in the matter, and the deceased came; some words ensued between them of rather an aggressive nature, and the evidence is in contradiction as to whether they engaged in a fight or not. Some of the testimony shows they did, and that the…