Jones v. State

RICE, Judge.

Appellant was tried under an indictment charging him with the offense of murder in the second degree. He was convicted of the offense of manslaughter in the first degree, and his punishment fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of two years and six months.

Appellant, deceased, and another were > in the home of said other drinking “home-brew,” which we know to mean an intoxicating “home-made” beer.

It would seem inadvisable to narrate in detail the testimony. Let it suffice to say that while defendant’s witness Alvis, designated above as the “other,” or “another,”…