Fifter v. State

BAKER, Judge. —

Appellant was indicted in Haskell County, charged with murdering Will McGinnis by shooting him wdth a gun, and convicted of manslaughter in said court on December 4, 1924, and his punishment assessed at three years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

The record in this ease discloses that both the appellant and deceased were negroes and that the appellant shot the deceased in the yard of the appellant late at night while deceased was scratching upon the screen or working at the window near the bed of a fourteen-year-old step-daughter of defendant, who, the evidence discloses, was…