Harris v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, his punishment being assessed at eight years confinement in the penitentiary.

1. Bill of exceptions No. 1 recites that the indictment charges appellant with having murdered W. B. Thomas by striking him with a stick of wood or some blunt instrument. The deceased was a white man about thirty-six years of age. The defendant is a negro about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years of age; The difficulty in .which deceased lost his life occurred un October 8, 1911, on a farm owned by Couch. There was evidence showing that…