Chambers v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years; hence this appeal.

The theory of the State, as gathered from the evidenc, is to the effect that after the altercation between Lon Chambers (brother of appellant) and deceased at the schoolhouse or church, appellant and his brother Lon, and perhaps others, entered into a conspiracy to kill deceased, and afterwards on the way from church they brought on such difficulty, and appellant shot and killed deceased, not in the necessary…