Lyons v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of manslaughter and given five years in the penitentiary.

The State’s theory of the case was an unprovoked killing; that deceased was at a house of prostitution on Christmas night; in a room with a woman whom he, though married to another woman, had been living with off and on for some years in adultery; that appellant had been in the room with deceased and this woman, and had gone off to bring some intoxicating 'liquor for the three; had returned and asked for deceased; that he went into the woman’s room at her invitation where deceased was,…