Edwards v. State

HARPER, Judge.

—The appellant was indicted in the District Court of Callahan County, charged with murder. The venue was changed to Eastland County, and upon a trial he was convicted of murder in the second degree.

1. The first witness for the State was Wash Russom. Russom testified that on the evening of the killing he saw defendant hauling poles to put up a fence on land about which defendant and deceased had been quarreling. That after defendant had passed by his house with the second load of poles deceased came to him at his barn and asked if defendant was unloading the poles down there.…