Pyles v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree. His jury trial resulted in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, punishment being fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of five years.

The evidence presented by the State tend ed to show that the appellant, James Pyles, went to the house where the deceased, Den*124nis Brooks lived, in search of his wife, who had been absent from the Pyles home overnight.

He was told by the deceased that the woman was not there. The appellant left, but returned in about fifteen minutes and began to threaten…