Harris v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

The killing here depicted is both tragic and pathetic — tragic, in that the life of a fine sixteen-year-old high school student was forfeited; pathetic, in that death was caused by the carelessness and negligence, with no intent to kill, of a seventy-three-year-old retired farmer-preacher, who had never before been charged with a violation of the law and who had always borne a good reputation as a law-abiding citizen.

The Park Board of the City of Abilene operates Fair Park. Among the buildings in the park was one known as the “Youth Center,” where young people could and did…