Boles v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is manslaughter, the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

A former appeal of this case is reported in 288 S. W. 198. We deem it unnecessary to again discuss the evidence.

The court concluded that the evidence raised the issue of self-defense and embodied in his charge an instruction covering the law thereof.

A physician who was testifying for the state stated that he examined the body of deceased immediately after he was killed. This witness did not view the homicide. The version of those present was that all of the parties were standing when the…