Carter v. State

The appellant was indicted for the murder of one Paul Johnson, and was tried and convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to a term of twelve years in the state penitentiary. The deceased was a white man, and was appellant’s landlord; the appellant being a negro. The deceased was killed in the appellant’s residence. The circumstances as developed by the record were substantially as follows:

On Monday before the killing on Tuesday afternoon the deceased went to the appellant’s place , and stated that he desired the appellant and his wife to begin pick ing cotton; it being in the month of August…