Canty v. State

Plaintiff in error, Ben Canty, was charged in an information filed in the district court of Love county with murder, for that he had shot and killed Walter Tate, and upon a trial he was convicted of manslaughter in'the first degree and his punishment assessed at seven years in the penitentiary. From the judgment rendered upon such conviction he has appealed, but there has been no appearance in his behalf on his appeal. When the case was called for final submission it was submitted on the record, and we have nothing before us but the petition in error and case-made.

The errors assigned are…