Beard v. State

BERRY, Judge. —

Appellant was convicted in the district court of Milam County for the offense of murder and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of five years.

Appellant and deceased were first cousins. Appellant is a married man about thirty-three (33) years of age and deceased was a single man about the age of twenty-three years. The killing grew out of what the appellant claimed was alleged improper relations between deceased and the wife of appellant. The parties were all together at church on Sunday about twelve o’clock and there they had a conversatipn,…