Bell v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is murder. The punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of two years.

There are no bills of exception in the record complaining of the admission or refusal of any evidence. The only complaints brought forward relate to the court’s main charge and his refusal to give appellant’s special requested instruction to the jury to return a verdict of not guilty. In our opinion, appellant was not entitled to such an instruction. The record reflects that appellant and deceased met in the town of Bastrop and soon engaged in an argument about an old…