Elix v. State

The defendant, Andrew Elis, was convicted in the district court of Comanche county of the crime of manslaughter in the second degree and sentenced to serve two years in the State Penitentiary.

In his appeal filed herein the defendant states that the only issue to be determined “is whether the shooting was accidental.”

The defendant and his wife were negroes who operated a rooming house and whisky joint in the city of Lawton. In this place they had four negro girls who stayed there to entertain negro soldiers, and other visitors who came there for whisky and entertainment. A colored division of…