Hadnot v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, murder; penalty, twenty-five years in the penitentiary.

The actors in this tragedy were all negroes. According to the State’s theory, amply supported by evidence, a controversy arose in deceased’s place of business over a domino game. Deceased was followed out of the room by appellant and his two brothers, who chased him around the chicken house, caught him, and one of appellant’s brother hit him with a stick of stove wood and he fell, whereupon appellant shot him. According to appellant’s theory deceased followed him to the house of appellant’s stepfather, tried to get…