Spencer v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant when tried was convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment assessed at three years confinement in the penitentiary.

The State’s evidence would support the verdict, and we do not deem it necessary to state it in detail, hut only such of it as will explain the opinion of the court.

On the trial it was proven that deceased and appellant had been friends, but on the morning of the difficulty deceased went into the store of appellant to transact some business. That a dispute arose and deceased called appellant a son-of-a-biteh. It is not clear which one committed the first…