Prater v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appeal is from a sentence of fifteen years for murder.

Briefly stated, the lengthy facts of this case show that the appellant owned a tract of land bordered on the north by land owned by Charley Moore, father of the deceased. The land sloped to the south and water from it drained onto Prater’s land. The matter of drainage had been the subject of litigation between them in which Prater had lost, resulting in bad blood and reported difficulties. This was the immediate cause of the tragedy.

While appellant was engaged in digging a ditch along the line contrary to the ideas of…