McDonald v. State

Conviction for murder; punishment, five years in the penitentiary. Appellant was a deputy sheriff. Informed that a felony had been committed by two Mexicans who had fled, he called the sheriff over telephone, and was told to handle the matter himself as he thought best. He gathered a posse, and at a late hour in, the night went out in the direction he thought the Mexicans had gone. At about 4:30 in the morning his posse was near Grand Falls. Deceased, a restaurant man in Grand Falls, had stayed up that night to furnish food to a group of men who desired same after the adjournment of their…